Rundlauf

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁʊntlaʊ̯f/

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 [masculine, strong]

	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.

Derived terms

• Rundlauffehler
• Rundlaufprüfvorrichtung

See also

• Höhenschlag
• Seitenschlag
• Schlag