Meanings
plural ultrarunners
- A runner in an ultramarathon.
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And last summer, the veteran ultrarunner Kim McCoy lost her leg when she was struck by a car while crossing a highway 70 miles from the finish line of a 340-mile race across the American South. […] “I’m going to make sure I am prepared now, and I don’t think I am unique among ultrarunners in thinking that,” Karnazes said.
2021 May 25, Matthew Futterman, “‘I Am So Freaked Out. I Can’t Even Get My Mind Around It.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2021
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ultrarunner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrarunner
“ultrarunner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ultrarunner. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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