Rundlauf

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German

Etymology

rund (“round”) +‎ Lauf (“course, run, running”)

Pronunciation

Noun

Rundlauf m (strong, genitive Rundlaufes or Rundlaufs, plural Rundläufe)

  1. the act of going around, moving around:
    1. a race around something
    2. (table tennis) round-the-table ping-pong (game with more than two players, where each player after making their strike must run to the other side of table and those who fail to return the ball are eliminated)
      Synonym: Chinesisch
    3. (chess) a maneuver where a piece is moved around another one
    4. (chess) an act of moving a piece around (i.e. not back and forth) repeatedly and ending up on a square already visited
    5. (mechanical engineering) the way a revolving part (especially a tire) behaves, especially with respect to deviation in height (more accurately: deviation in projected radius on the plane that is perpendicular to the rotational axis)
      Coordinate terms: Planlauf, Spurlauf
      guten Rundlauf haben ― to have little runout

Declension

Declension of Rundlauf
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Rundlauf die Rundläufe
genitive eines des Rundlaufes, Rundlaufs der Rundläufe
dative einem dem Rundlauf, Rundlaufe1 den Rundläufen
accusative einen den Rundlauf die Rundläufe

1Now rare, see notes.

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See also

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