@ PreciseEdit – many of the ’standard’ meanings of run and the other verbs you mention (and many more) are fossilised metaphors.

Just says something about the human mind, of course.

As I read the list of meanings and examples, I was reminded of the many meanings of “walk,” as a verb and a noun, and as the basis for many idioms.

Then I thought about other words that indicate, at their root, some means of forward movement, such as “fly,” “drive,” and “ride,” and how they have similar characteristics to “run” and “walk.”

Ain’t words great?