running commentary

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running commentary (plural running commentaries)

  1. A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
    • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
      It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. [] You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”
    • 1974, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Ethological studies of child behaviour, page 250:
      Observations were made using a running commentary, which consisted mainly of a list of coded behaviour items.