run barefoot through

present singular third person runs barefoot through · participle present running barefoot through · past ran barefoot through

1. To explore or experience freely and with enjoyment.

   At last I obtained a copy of The Artist's Way and set to --- I almost said work, but thinking better of it, I set to running barefoot through my inner resources.

   1995, A View from the Loft - Volumes 18-19

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   The impasto surfaces — skittering, superimposed grids and crosshatchings with highly sophisticated interplays of color and rhythm — are so lush and richly textured that you want to run barefoot through them.

   1994, The New Yorker, page 16

   My thanks to Colonel Tom Anderson, retired, of the Alaska State Troopers and the Alaska State Trooper Museum, for letting me run barefoot through his files and back issues of the Banner, greatly aiding the plot of this novel.

   2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN

   I can just about smell the weekend, gloriously -- so let's not plan anymore directions but a rip-roaring, sunlit day: just go laughing and free run barefoot through all the dot-points. . . I can just about smell the weekend, gloriously.

   2010, Ivan Rehorek, Rare & Vacant Hour, →ISBN, pages 24–25

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, barefoot, through.