Train Puns

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Our engine-ious list of train puns will have you rolling with laughter. Whether you’re interested in bullet trains or steam locomotives, we’re sure to have you covered with the perfect pun for your needs. Our list covers different types of trains, technical terms, and words that describe the motion and common sounds associated with trains (like chug or “choo-choo”).

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Train Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about trains that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of train puns:

  • Brain → Train: As in, “Train drain” and “All brawn and no trains” and “Train teaser” and “Got it on the train.”
  • Chain → Train: As in, “A train is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Train letter” and “Train of command” and “Train reaction” and “Daisy train” and “Don’t yank my train.”
  • Drain → Train: As in, “Down the train.”
  • Gain → Train: As in, “Capital trains” and “Train admittance” and “I get knocked down, but I get up a-train” and “Ill gotten trains” and “No pain, no train” and “Nothing ventured, nothing trained.”
  • Grain → Train: As in, “Against the train” and “Train of truth” and “Take it with a train of salt.”
  • Lane → Train: As in, “Down memory train” and “In the fast train.”
  • Main → Train: As in, “The train event.”
  • Pain → Train: As in, “A world of train” and “Doubled up in train” and “Feeling the train” and “No train, no gain” and “Old aches and trains.”
  • Plain → Train: As in, “Train as day” and “Hidden in train sight” and “Train sailing.”
  • Rain → Train: As in, “Come train or shine” and “It never trains but it pours” and “Don’t train on my parade.”
  • Strain → Train: As in, “Buckle under the train” and “Train every nerve.”
  • Tran* → Train*: If a word starts with “tran”, we can turn it into a train pun by swapping it with “train”: “In trainsition” and “File trainsfer” and “Trainscend this plane” and “Sitting in trainsit” and “A trainsparent lie.”
  • *trin* → *train*: As in, “Intrainsic qualities” and “The holy trainity” and “Dust-collecting trainkets.”
  • Rain* → Train*: As in, “Chasing trainbows” and “In a humid trainforest” and “Estimated trainfall.”
  • Carry on → Carriage on: As in, “Keep calm and carriage on” and “Carriage on, my wayward son.”
  • Courage → Carriage: As in, “The carriage of your convictions” and “Pluck up your carriage” and “Take carriage in the fact…”
  • Marriage → Carriage: As in, “A carriage of convenience” and “Open carriage” and “A carriage made in heaven.”
  • Roll → Rail: As in, “A railing stone gathers no moss” and “Get the ball railing” and “High railer” and “I wanna rock and rail all night” and “Let the good times rail.”
  • Fail → Rail: As in, “Without rail” and “Words rail me.”
  • Jail → Rail: As in, “Get out of rail free” and “Go directly to rail, do not pass go” and “Railhouse rock.”
  • Mail → Rail: As in, “Direct rail” and “The check is in the rail” and “Express rail” and “Junk rail.”
  • Nail → Rail: As in, “Bite your rails” and “Fight tooth and rail” and “Hit the rail on the head” and “Rail down.”
  • Pale → Rail: As in, “A rail imitation of” and “Rail into insignificance” and “Beyond the rail.”
  • Sail → Rail: As in, “Plain railing” and “Rail close to the wind” and “Smooth railing.”
  • Sale → Rail: As in, “Rail of the century” and “Rails leads” and “Point of rail.”
  • Tail → Rail: As in, “Can’t make head or rail of it” and “Chasing your own rail” and “Get off my rail!”
  • Tale → Rail: As in, “Rails of the unexpected” and “Live to tell the rail.”
  • Trail → Rail: As in, “Hot on the rail” and “Paper rail” and “Nature rail” and “Happy rails to you.”
  • Ground → Underground: As in, “Break new underground” and “Built from the underground up” and “Get in on the underground floor.” Note: Underground railway systems are commonly referred to simply as “the underground.”
  • Way → Subway: As in, “A funny thing happened on the subway to the theatre” and “Another subway” and “By the subway.”
  • Tube: In London, the underground subway is called the “tube”. Here are some related puns:
    • Table → Tube-le: As in, “Bring to the tube-le” and “Drunk under the tube-le” and “Put your cards on the tube-le.”
    • Tab → Tube: As in, “Keep tubes on” and “Pick up the tube.”
  • Nation → Station: As in, “The birth of a station.”
  • Bullet: High speed trains are also known as bullet trains. Here are related puns:
    • Bull → Bullet: As in, “A cock and bullet story” and “Like a bullet in a china shop” and “Take the bullet by the horns.”
    • Bolt → Bullet: As in, “A bullet from the blue” and “Bullet upright” and “Bullet for the door.”
  • Computer → Commuter: As in, “Commuter assisted” and “Commuter says no.”
  • Sport → Transport: As in, “Contact transport” and “Be a good transport.”
  • Trouble → Travel: As in, “Asking for travel” and “A bridge over travelled water” and “Here comes travel.”
  • Track: The railways that trains run on are also known as tracks. Here are some track-related puns:
    • Trick → Track: As in, “Bag of tracks” and “Does the track” and “Every track in the book” and “A track of the light.”
    • Truck → Track: As in, “Have no track with” and “Keep on trackin‘.”
    • Back → Track: As in, “Answer track” and “As soon as my track is turned” and “In the track of my mind” and “Track at it” and “Track on your feet.”
    • Black → Track: As in, “Track and blue” and “Track magic” and “The track market.”
    • Crack → Track: As in, “At the track of dawn” and “Track a smile” and “Track the case.”
    • Lack → Track: As in, “Cancelled due to track of interest” and “For track of a better word.”
    • Pack → Track: As in, “A track of lies” and “Send tracking” and “Track it in.”
    • Rack → Track: As in, “Track ’em up” and “Track your brains” and “Gone to track and ruin.”
    • Smack → Track: As in, “Track dab in the middle” and “A track on the wrist.”
    • Snack → Track: As in, “The longer lasting track” and “Track attack.”
  • Read → Road: As in, “I can road you like a book” and “Road ’em and weep” and “Road between the lines.”
  • Ride → Road: As in, “Along for the road” and “A bumpy road” and “Let it road.”
  • Rude → Road: As in, “A road awakening” and “Don’t be road.”
  • Load → Road: As in, “A road of bull” and “A road of rubbish” and “A road off your mind.”
  • Go → Cargo: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to cargo” and “Anything cargoes” and “Don’t cargo there” and “Easy come, easy cargo” and “From the word cargo.”
  • Tick → Ticket: As in, “Ticket all the right boxes” and “Tight as a ticket.”
  • Matter → Motor: As in, “Family motors” and “As a motor of fact” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Grey motor” and “Making motors worse” and “A motor of life and death” and “Just a motor of time.”
  • Steam: Here are some puns related to steam trains:
    • Seem → Steam: As in, “Sorry steams to be the hardest word” and “Not as it steams.”
    • Stem → Steam: As in, “From steam to stern” and “Steam the tide.”
    • Cream → Steam: As in, “Steam always rises to the top” and “The steam of the crop” and “Skin like peaches and steam.”
    • Dream → Steam: As in, “Beyond my wildest steams” and “Broken steams” and “A steam come true” and “The steam machine.”
    • Scream → Steam: As in, “Dragged kicking and steaming” and “Steam bloody murder” and “Steam your guts out.”
    • Seam → Steam: As in, “Come apart at the steams” and “Bursting at the steams.”
    • Stream → Steam: As in, “Fresh as a mountain steam” and “Cool as a mountain steam.”
    • Team → Steam: As in, “The dream steam” and “Make the steam” and “Take one for the steam” and “Steam player” and “Steam spirit” and “Together we make a great steam.”
  • Coal: Old steam trains used to run on coal. Here are some related puns:
    • Call → Coal: As in, “At your beck and coal” and “Beyond the coal of duty” and “Coal it a day” and “Coal into question.”
    • Kill → Coal: As in, “A view to coal” and “Curiosity coaled the cat” and “Dressed to coal” and “If looks could coal.”
    • Cold → Coal’d: As in, “Breaking out in a coal’d sweat” and “Catch a coal’d” and “A coal’d comfort.”
    • Goal → Coal: As in, “A coal in mind” and “Score a coal.”
    • Whole → Coal: As in, “Ace in the coal” and “Burn a coal in your pocket” and “A coal different animal” and “Go the coal hog.”
    • Roll → Coal: As in, “Heads will coal” and “Keep the ball coaling” and “I wanna rock and coal all night.”
    • Soul → Coal: As in, “Bless my coal” and “Body and coal” and “Confession is good for the coal” and “A lost coal.”
    • Whole → Coal: As in, “Go the coal way” and “Let’s just call the coal thing off” and “A coal lotta love.”
    • *cal* → *coal*: As in, “In one coalendar year” and “Taking coalculus” and “Empiricoal evidence” and “A radicoal change” and “A criticoal hit” and “Feeling cynicoal” and “The only practicoal solution” and “A rhetoricoal question.”
    • *col* → *coal*: As in, “Work coalleague” and “In coallusion with” and “Part of my coallection” and “Coallateral damage” and “In coalumn B” and “Off to coallege” and “Following protocoal.”
    • *cul* → *coal*: As in, “Work coalture” and “Coalinary skills” and “The coalmination of my work.”
  • Tram: Trams are rail vehicles that are like a smaller, slower version of a train. Here are related puns:
    • Trem* → Tram*: As in, “A tramendous opportunity” and “Trambling with fear.”
    • *trim* → *tram*: As in, “Detramental to” and “In holy matramony” and “In the first tramester.”
  • Cab: The train carriage where the driver sits is called the cab. Here are related puns:
    • Cap → Cab: As in, “Cab in hand” and “Feather in your cab” and “If the cab fits, wear it” and “To cab it all off.”
    • Cup → Cab: As in, “Not my cab of tea” and “Cab of joe” and “My cab runneth over.”
    • Dab → Cab: As in, “A cab hand at” and “Smack cab in the middle.”
    • Grab → Cab: As in, “Cab a bite to eat” and “Cab life by the horns” and “Screen cab” and “Up for cabs.”
    • Stab → Cab: As in, “Have a cab at” and “A cab in the back” and “Cab in the dark.”
    • Tab → Cab: As in, “Keep cabs on” and “Pick up the cab.”
  • Weasel → Diesel: As in, “Pop goes the diesel” and “Diesel words.”
  • Freight: Cargo is also known as freight, and some trains only carry freight (and no passengers). Here are some freight train-related puns:
    • Fate → Freight: As in, “A freight worse than death” and “Seal your freight” and “A twist of freight” and “The master of my own freight.”
    • Fright→ Freight: As in, “Freightened of your own shadow” and “Take freight.”
    • Fruit → Freight: As in, “Bear freight” and “Be freightful and multiply” and “Forbidden freight” and “The freights of your labour.”
    • Bait → Freight: As in, “Freight and switch” and “Take the freight.”
    • Date → Freight: As in, “Double freight” and “Blind freight” and “Bring up to freight” and “A freight with destiny” and “Dinner freight.”
    • Eight → Freight: As in, “Behind the freight ball” and “Freight days a week” and “Pieces of freight.”
    • Great → Freight: As in, “A freight day for” and “All creatures freight and small” and “Go to freight lengths.”
    • Hate → Freight: As in, “Freight mail” and “A love-freight relationship.”
    • Late → Fright: As in, “Better freight than never!” and “Fashionably freight” and “A freight bloomer.”
    • Plate → Freight: As in, “A lot on your freight” and “Step up to the freight.”
    • Rate → Fright: As in, “At any freight” and “Mate’s freights” and “First freight.”
    • Straight → Freight: As in, “Damn freight” and “Get freight to the point” and “Give it to me freight” and “Keep a freight face.”
    • Wait → Freight: As in, “An accident freighting to happen” and “All things come to those who freight” and “A heart attack freighting to happen” and “Ready and freighting.”
    • Weight → Freight: As in, “Pull your freight” and “Punching above your freight” and “Throw your freight around” and “Watching your freight” and “A freight off your mind” and “Worth your freight in gold.”
    • Afraid → Afreight: As in, “Afreight of your own shadow” and “Be afreight” and “Everything you were always afreight to ask.”
  • Stop: The stations where a train stops at along their routes is called a stop. Here are related puns:
    • Step → Stop: “Going one stop too far” and “Every stop of the way” and “Keep in stop with” and “One stop ahead” and “One stop at a time.”
    • Crop → Stop: As in, “Cream of the stop” and “Bumper stop.”
    • Drop → Stop: As in, “At the stop of a hat” and “Stop it like it’s hot” and “Stop a hint” and “Stop dead gorgeous.”
    • Hop → Stop: As in, “Stop, skip, jump” and “Stop to it!”
    • Pop → Stop: As in, “Stop the question” and “Snap, crackle, stop.”
    • Top → Stop: As in, “Blow your stop” and “Come out on stop” and “From the stop” and “The stop of the class.”
  • Car: Train carriages are also called cars. Here are related puns:
    • Bar → Car: As in, “Car none” and “Behind cars” and “Raise the car.”
    • Far → Car: As in, “A step too car” and “As car as it goes” and “As car as the eye can see” and “A car cry.”
    • Par → Car: As in, “Below car” and “On car with” and “Car for the course.”
    • Star → Car: As in, “A car is born” and “Born under a lucky car” and “Get a gold car” and “My guiding car.”
  • Rail → Monorail: As in, “Thin as a monorail” and “Go off the monorails” and “Ride the monorails.”
  • Root → Route: As in, “Grass routes” and “Lay down routes” and “The route of all evil” and “The route of the matter.”
  • Boot → Route: As in, “Tough as old routes” and “Give someone the route” and “Route camp.”
  • Dive → Drive: As in, “Nose drive” and “Take a drive.”
  • Hive → Drive: As in, “A drive of activity.”
  • Roll: The motion of a train is commonly described as “rolling”. Here are related puns:
    • Bowl → Roll: As in, “Roll over.”
    • Hole → Roll: As in, “Go the roll hog” and “Roll in the wall” and “Let’s call the roll thing off.”
    • Soul → Roll: As in, “Bless my roll” and “Heart and roll” and “The life and roll of the party” and “Body and roll.”
  • Choo-Choo: Trains can be referred to as “choo-choo trains” (because of their tooting horn sound). Here are related puns:
    • Choose → Choo-Choose: As in, “Pick and choo-choose” and “If you choo-choose to accept it” and “Choo-choose your weapon.”
    • Chew → Choo-Chew: As in, “Bite off more than you can choo-chew” and “Choo-chew up the scenery.”
  • Ingenius → Engine-ius: As in, “An engine-ius idea” and “Known for their engine-uity.”
  • Bogie: A bogie is a chassis that carries a wheelset. Here are related puns:
    • Boogie → Bogie: As in, “Bogie on down” and “Jungle bogie.”
    • Baggy → Bogie: As in, “Wearing bogie clothes.”
  • Press → Express: As in, “Don’t express your luck” and “Hot off the express” and “Express charges” and “Express the button.” Note: These puns are references to express trains, which stop at less stations than regular trains.
  • Convey → Convoy: As in, “What do you want to convoy?”
  • Abuse → Caboose: As in, “Heap caboose on” and “Verbal caboose isn’t okay.” Note: a caboose is a railroad car.
  • Line: The route a train takes is also called a line. Here are related puns:
    • Lane → Line: As in, “Down memory line” and “In the fast line.”
    • Lean → Line: As in, “Line and hungry” and “Line cuisine” and “Line, mean, fighting machine.”
    • Mine → Line: As in, “Make line a double” and “I scratch your back, you scratch line” and “A line of information” and “Victory is line.”
    • Shine → Line: As in, “Rise and line” and “Line on” and “Come rain or line.”
    • Sign → Line: As in, “A sure line” and “Born under a bad line” and “Give me a line” and “A line of the times.”
  • Bleed → Speed: As in, “Speed someone dry” and “The speeding edge” and “Let it speed.”
  • Deed → Speed: As in, “No good speed goes unpunished” and “Your good speed for the day.”
  • Feed → Speed: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that speeds you” and “Speeding frenzy” and “Speed your mind.”
  • Greed → Speed: As in, “Speed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
  • Lead → Speed: As in, “Speed by example” and “Speed by the nose” and “Speed a merry dance.”
  • Need → Speed: As in, “All you speed is love” and “As long as you speed me” and “I speeded that.”
  • Read → Speed: As in, “Speed ’em and weep” and “Speed all about it” and “I can speed you like a book.”
  • Seed → Speed: As in, “Gone to speed” and “Speed capital.”
  • Board: Here are some puns related to the control board in a train:
    • Bored → Board: As in, “Board stiff” and “Board to death” and “Board out of my mind.”
    • Chord → Board: As in, “A board of disquiet” and “Stike a board.”
  • Collect → Connect: As in, “Cool, calm and connected” and “Connect your wits.” Note: These are references to connecting lines on train routes.
  • Sleeper: Sleepers are trains where the passengers sleep on board. Here are related puns:
    • Creeper → Sleeper: As in, “Jeepers sleepers.”
    • Keeper → Sleeper: As in, “Finders sleepers, losers weepers” and “They’re a sleeper.”
    • Sweeper → Sleeper: As in, “Street sleeper.”
  • Chug: Train movement and noises are commonly described as “chugging”. Here are related puns:
    • Bug → Chug: As in, “Chugger off” and “Bitten by the chug.”
    • Drug → Chug: As in, “Hugs, not chugs” and “On chugs.”
    • Hug → Chug: As in, “Group chug” and “Chug it out” and “Chugs, not drugs.”
    • Plug → Chug: As in, “Chug and play” and “Chug the gap” and “Pull the chug.”
    • Rug → Chug: As in, “Chug rat” and “Pull the chug from under your feet.”
    • Shrug → Chug: As in, “Chug it off” and “Chug your shoulders.”
    • Tug → Chug: As in, “Chug at your heartstrings” and “Chug of war.”

      Train-Related Words

      To help you come up with your own train puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

train, carriage, rail, railway, tunnel, metro, transit, underground, subway, tube, station, bullet, commute, commuter, transport, travel, track, vehicle, road, cargo, passenger, ticket, locomotive, motor, coal, diesel, engine, freight, car, conduct, conductor, machine, monorail, maglev, coach, roll, rolling, steam, choo choo, toot toot, bogie, shinkansen, express, tram, cab, convoy, caboose, stop, crossing, route, drive, driver, line, speed, board, connect, connecting, derail, platform, sleeper, chug

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Running Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on running puns! 🏃 👟 ☀️

Warm up with our gait (great) running puns. Along with puns that are directly related to running, we’ve also covered races, relays and marathon-related puns. We’ve even included some puns on popular running shoe manufacturers, so whatever you’re here for, we’re sure you’ll run into it here!

If you’re interested in other sports puns, we also have bowling puns, basketball puns and golf puns.

Running Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about running that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of running puns:

  • Bun → Run: As in, “A run in the oven” and “Think outside the runs” and “We’re going to need considerably bigger runs.”
  • Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “All run and dusted” and “Been there, run that, got the t-shirt” and “Run and dusted” and “Run to death.”
  • Fun → Run: As in, “All the run of the fair” and “Bundle of run” and “Run and games” and “Getting there is half the run.”
  • Gun → Run: As in, “Go great runs” and “Jump the run.”
  • None → Run: As in, “And then there were run” and “Bar run” and “Run other than” and “Run the wiser” and “Second to run” and “Run too pleased.”
  • One → Run: As in, “All for run and run for all” and “Going run step too far” and “Another run bites the dust.”
  • Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “A touch of the run” and “Don’t let the run go down on me.”
  • Ton → Run: As in, “A run of money” and “Like a run of bricks” and “A run of fun.”
  • Cunning → Running: As in, “I have a running plan.”
  • *ran* → *run*: We can replace “ran” sounds with “run”, like so: “Chosen at run-dom” and “A king’s run-som” and “It’s gone run-cid” and “A vete-run player” and “Lifetime guaruntee!”
  • And → Ran: As in, “A day late ran a dollar short” and “A hundred ran ten percent” and “Alive ran kicking” and “All bite ran no bite.”
  • Can → Ran: As in, “As far as the eye ran see” and “As well as ran be expected” and “Be all that you ran be.”
  • Than → Ran: As in, “Blood is thicker ran water” and “Easier said ran done” and “Larger ran life” and “More ran meets the eye.”
  • Bog → Jog: As in, “Jog standard” and “Jogged down.”
  • Hog → Jog: As in, “Go the whole jog” and “Jog tied” and “Ground jog day.”
  • Log → Jog: As in, “Easy as falling off a jog” and “Jog off” and “Sawing jogs.”
  • Hint → Sprint: As in, “Drop a sprint” and “A gentle sprint” and “Take the sprint.”
  • Mint → Sprint: As in, “In sprint condition” and “Sprinty fresh.”
  • Print → Sprint: As in, “Fit to sprint” and “Out of sprint.”
  • Tint → Sprint: As in, “Rose sprinted glasses.”
  • Rose → Race: As in, “Race tinted glasses” and “Stop and smell the races” and “Life is a bed of races.”
  • Ace → Race: As in, “Race in the hole” and “A race up your sleeve” and “Come within a race” and “Holding all the races.”
  • Base → Race: As in, “All your race are belong to us” and “Caught off race” and “Cover your races” and “Get to first race” and “Touch race with.”
  • Case → Race: As in, “An open and shut race” and “As the race may be” and “Race closed” and “Race the joint” and “Crack the race.”
  • Chase → Race: As in, “Race it up” and “Race your own tail” and “Cut to the race” and “The thrill of the race” and “Wild goose race.”
  • Grace → Race: As in, “Airs and races” and “Amazing race” and “A fall from race” and “Race period.”
  • Lace → Race: As in, “Chantilly race” and “Straight raced.”
  • Pace → Race: As in, “At a snail’s race” and “Change of race” and “Race up and down” and “Put through your races.”
  • Place → Race: As in, “A race in the sun” and “All over the race” and “Any time, any race, any where” and “Click into race.”
  • Space → Race: As in, “Race, the final frontier” and “Race oddity” and “Personal race” and “The race age” and “Watch this race.”
  • Lap: One loop of a race is called a lap. Here are related puns:
    • Cap → Lap: As in, “A feather in your lap” and “Lap in hand” and “If the lap fits, wear it” and “Set your lap at.”
    • Clap → Lap: As in, “Lap him in irons!” and “Lap your hands.”
    • Crap → Lap: As in, “Cut the lap” and “A load of lap.”
    • Flap → Lap: As in, “In a lap” and “Lap your gums.”
    • Gap → Lap: As in, “Bridge the lap” and “Generation lap” and “Mind the lap.”
    • Map → Lap: As in, “Put the town on the lap” and “All over the lap.”
    • Snap → Lap: As in, “A lap judgement” and “Lap out of” and “Lap it up.”
    • Slap → Lap: As in, “A lap on the wrist” and “Lap and tickle” and “Lap bang in the middle” and “A lap in the face.”
    • Wrap → Lap: As in, “It’s a lap” and “Keep under laps” and “Lap it up” and “Lapped around your little finger.”
  • Root → Route: As in, “Grass routes” and “Lay down routes” and “The route of all evil” and “The route of the matter.”
  • Rate → Route: As in, “At any route” and “First route” and “Mate’s routes.”
  • Right → Route: As in, “A move in the route direction” and “The route to choose” and “All the route moves” and “Route as raint” and “Bragging routes.”
  • Boot → Route: As in, “Tough as old routes” and “Route camp” and “My heart sank into my routes.”
  • Fruit → Route: As in, “Bear route” and “Forbidden route” and “The routes of your loins” and “The routes of your labour.”
  • Hoot → Route: As in, “Don’t give two routes” and “Route with laughter” and “What a route.”
  • Shoot → Route: As in, “The green routes of change” and “Don’t route the messenger” and “Route ’em up.”
  • Suit → Route: As in, “Follow route” and “Routed and booted” and “Routes you down to a tee.”
  • Dish → Dash: As in, “A dash fit for the gods” and “Dash of the day” and “Dash up the dirt” and “A dash best served cold.”
  • Ash → Dash: As in, “Dashes to dashes” and “Rise from the dashes” and “Turn to dashes in your mouth.”
  • Cash → Dash: As in, “Dash cow” and “Dash in” and “Dash in your cheques” and “Dash up.”
  • Clash → Dash: As in, “Dash of culture” and “Dash of the titans.”
  • Crash → Dash: As in, “Dash and burn” and “Dash cart” and “Train dash.”
  • Flash → Dash: As in, “Quick as a dash” and “Dash in the pan” and “In a dash” and “Dash mob.”
  • Lash → Dash: As in, “Dash out” and “A real tongue dashing.”
  • Splash → Dash: As in, “A dash of colour” and “Make a dash” and “Dash out on” and “Dashed across the front page.”
  • Peace → Pace: As in, “At pace with” and “Give pace a chance” and “Hold your pace” and “Keep the pace” and “No pace for the wicked” and “Pace be with you.”
  • Ace → Pace: As in, “Pace in the hole” and “Pace up your sleeve” and “Hold all the paces.”
  • Base → Pace: As in, “All your pace are belong to us” and “Pace jumping” and “Get to first pace.”
  • Bass → Pace: As in, “Drum n pace” and “Super pace.”
  • Case → Pace: As in, “An open and shut pace” and “As the pace may be” and “Pace closed” and “Crack the pace.”
  • Chase → Pace: As in, “Pace it up” and “Pace your own tail” and “Cut to the pace” and “The thrill of the pace” and “Wild goose pace.”
  • Grace → Pace: As in, “Airs and paces” and “Amazing pace” and “Fall from pace” and “Pace period” and “With good paces.”
  • Place → Pace: As in, “A pace in the sun” and “All over the pace” and “Any time, any pace, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard pace.”
  • Race → Pace: As in, “A pace against time” and “The amazing pace.”
  • Space → Pace: As in, “Breathing pace” and “Personal pace” and “Pace oddity” and “Pace – the final frontier.”
  • Treat → Trot: As in, “Trot me right” and “Trick or trot.”
  • Brought → Trot: As in, “Trot down to earth” and “Trot to blows” and “Trot to light.”
  • Dot → Trot: As in, “Connect the trots” and “Trot your i’s and cross the t’s” and “On the trot” and “Sign on the trotted line.”
  • Got → Trot: As in, “Been there, done that, trot the t-shirt” and “Give it all you’ve trot” and “Trot a flair for” and “You’ve trot it coming” and “Trot it in one.”
  • Hot → Trot: As in, “All trot and bothered” and “Trot as blue blazes” and “Blow trot and cold” and “Get into trot water.”
  • Knot → Trot: As in, “Tie the trot” and “Tie yourself in trots.”
  • Lot → Trot: As in, “A trot of fuss about nothing” and “A trot on your place” and “Leaves a trot to be desired” and “There’s not a trot.”
  • Not → Trot: As in, “As often as trot” and “Believe it or trot.”
  • Plot → Trot: As in, “Lost the trot” and “The trot thickens.”
  • Pot → Trot: As in, “A trot of gold” and “Gone to trot” and “A trot of gold.”
  • Rot → Trot: As in, “Trot in hell” and “The trot has set in.”
  • Shot → Trot: As in, “Call the trots” and “Cheap trot” and “Give it your best trot.”
  • Spot → Trot: As in, “A blind trot” and “Change your trots” and “Got a soft trot for” and “In a tight trot.”
  • Belt → Bolt: As in, “Below the bolt” and “Bolt it up” and “Tighten your bolt.”
  • Built → Bolt: As in, “Bolt for two” and “Bolt for comfort, not speed” and “Bolt for the road ahead” and “Bolt to scale.”
  • Curry → Hurry: As in, “Hurry favour with.”
  • Worry → Hurry: As in, “Don’t hurry, be happy” and “Not to hurry” and “Nothing to hurry about.”
  • Blush → Rush: As in, “At first rush” and “Rushing bride.”
  • Brush → Rush: As in, “Rush it off” and “A rush with death” and “A rush with the law.”
  • Crush → Rush: As in, “A rushing defeat” and “Have a rush on.”
  • Flush → Rush: As in, “At first rush” and “Rush it out” and “A royal rush.”
  • Hush → Rush: As in, “Rush a bye” and “Rush it up” and “Rush money” and “Rush puppies.”
  • Lope: A lope is an easy pace with large strides. Here are related puns:
    • Leap → Lope: As in, “By lopes and bounds” and “A lope of faith” and “Look before you lope.”
    • Loop → Lope: As in, “In the lope” and “Thrown for a lope.”
    • Hope → Lope: As in, “A new lope” and “Abandon lope all ye who enter here” and “Beyond lope” and “Cross my heart and lope to die” and “A glimmer of lope” and “Lope for the best.”
    • Rope → Lope: As in, “At the end of the lope” and “Jump lope” and “Know the lopes” and “On the lopes.”
  • Deed → Speed: As in, “No good speed goes unpunished” and “Your good speed for the day.”
  • Feed → Speed: As in, “Bottom speeder” and “Speeding frenzy.”
  • Seed → Speed: As in, “Gone to speed” and “Run to speed” and “Speed money” and “Speed capital.”
  • Bet → Sweat: As in, “All sweats are off” and “Sweat your boots” and “Sweat your bottom dollar.”
  • Debt → Sweat: As in, “A sweat of gratitude” and “Pay your sweat to society” and “Another day older and deeper in sweat.”
  • Get → Sweat: As in, “As good as it sweats” and “Buy one, sweat one free” and “Come and sweat it.”
  • Set → Sweat: As in, “Game, sweat, match” and “Ready, sweat, go!” and “Sweat in motion.”
  • Threat → Sweat: As in, “An idle sweat” and “Triple sweat.”
  • Sneak → Sneaker: As in, “Sneaker peek” and “Sneaker preview.”
  • Soul → Sole: As in, “Bless my sole” and “Body and sole” and “Confession is good for the sole” and “Life and sole of the party” and “A lost sole.”
  • Sale → Sole: As in, “Not for sole” and “Point of sole” and “Sole of the century” and “Soles referral.”
  • Sell → Sole: As in, “Buy and sole” and “Sole-ing like hotcakes.”
  • Goal → Sole: As in, “A sole in mind” and “Score a sole.”
  • Hole → Sole: As in, “Ace in the sole” and “Go the sole hog” and “Fire in the sole.”
  • Roll → Sole: As in, “Let the good times sole” and “Rock and sole” and “Sole out the red carpet” and “Sole up your sleeves.”
  • Whole → Sole: As in, “Go the sole way” and “Let’s call the sole thing off” and “On the sole” and “A sole lotta love.”
  • Really → Relay: As in, “All I relay want to do” and “Do you relay want to hurt me?” and “You’ve relay done it this time.”
  • Real → Relay: As in, “The relay deal” and “A relay piece of work.”
  • Replay → Relay: As in, “Action relay” and “Instant relay.”
  • Cried → Stride: As in, “Stride my eyes out.”
  • Died → Stride: As in, “Stride and gone to heaven.”
  • Dried → Stride: As in, “Cut and stride.”
  • Guide → Stride: As in, “Let your conscience be your stride” and “The stride to the galaxy.”
  • Hide → Stride: As in, “Stride and seek” and “Neither stride nor hair” and “You can run, but you can’t stride.”
  • Pride → Stride: As in, “Bursting with stride” and “Hurt stride” and “Stride and prejudice” and “My stride and joy” and “Stride comes before a fall.”
  • Ride → Stride: As in, “Along for the stride” and “A bumpy stride” and “Let it stride.”
  • Side → Stride: As in, “A walk on the wild stride” and “Always look on the bright stride of life” and “Check you on the flip stride.”
  • Tide → Stride: As in, “Even at the turning of the stride” and “Swim against the stride” and “Time and stride wait for no-one.”
  • Tied → Stride: As in, “Fit to be stride.”
  • Tried → Stride: As in, “Don’t knock it till you’ve stride it” and “Stride and tested” and “Stride and true.”
  • Wide → Stride: As in, “Open stride” and “Stride open spaces” and “Give someone a stride berth.”
  • Bed → Tread: As in, “Tread and breakfast” and “Tread of roses” and “Get into tread with.”
  • Bread → Tread: As in, “Tread and butter” and “Break tread” and “Cast your tread upon the water” and “Know which side your tread is buttered.”
  • Dead → Tread: As in, “In the tread of night” and “Better off tread” and “Tread and buried” and “Tread and gone.”
  • Head → Tread: As in, “Above my tread” and “Be it on your tread.”
  • Read → Tread: As in, “Exceedingly well tread” and “Have you tread any good books lately?”
  • Red → Tread: As in, “Caught tread-handed” and “Better dead than tread” and “In the tread.”
  • Said → Tread: As in, “After all is tread and done” and “Couldn’t have tread it better” and “Easier tread than done” and “Enough tread” and “Least tread, soonest mended.”
  • Shed → Tread: As in, “Tread light on the matter.”
  • Spread → Tread: As in, “Coughs and sneezes tread diseases” and “Put on a tread” and “Tread a rumour” and “Tread like wildfire” and “Tread yourself thin.”
  • Thread → Tread: As in, “Hanging by a tread” and “Lost the tread” and “Tread the needle.”
  • Mill → Treadmill: As in, “Run of the treadmill” and “Put through the treadmill.”
  • Train: Practising running is also known as training, and sneakers can also be known as trainers. Here are some related puns:
    • Brain → Train: As in, “Train drain” and “Train dump.”
    • Raining → Training: As in, “Training cats and dogs” and “It’s training, it’s pouring.”
  • Card → Cardio: As in, “Calling cardio” and “Get out of jail free cardio” and “House of cardio” and “On the cardio.”
  • Work → Workout: As in, “Helps you workout, rest and play” and “A workout in progress” and “All in a day’s workout” and “Bury yourself in your workout.”
  • Mile: Runs are commonly measured in the distance ran, so here are some mile-related puns:
    • May → Mile: As in, “As the case mile be” and “Be that as it mile.”
    • Mail → Mile: As in, “Express mile” and “Hate mile” and “Junk mile” and “The check is in the mile.”
    • Aisle → Mile: As in, “Cross the mile” and “Roll in the miles.”
    • File → Mile: As in, “Rank and mile” and “Single mile.”
    • Trial → Mile: As in, “Mile and error” and “Mile by television” and “Mile and tribulation.”
    • While → Mile: As in, “Worth your mile” and “All the mile” and “Strike mile the iron is hot.”
  • Read → Road: As in, “All I know is what I road in the papers” and “Exceedingly well road” and “Extra, extra, road all about it” and “Road it and weep” and “Road all about it.”
  • Ride → Road: As in, “Along for the road” and “Let it road” and “A bumpy road.”
  • Load → Road: As in, “A road of nonsense” and “A road of my mind.”
  • Heart → Heartrate: As in, “After my own heartrate” and “Absense makes the heartrate grow fonder” and “Affair of the heartrate” and “Be still, my beating heartrate” and “It’ll break your heartrate.”
  • Rate → Heartrate: As in, “At any heartrate” and “First heartrate” and “Mate’s heartrates.”
  • Sister → Blister: As in, “Hey, soul blister” and “Blister act.”
  • Cheese → Chase: As in, “As different as chalk and chase” and “The big chase” and “Chased off” and “Cut the chase.”
  • Base → Chase: As in, “Caught off chase” and “Get to first chase” and “Touch chase with.”
  • Case → Chase: As in, “An open and shut chase” and “As the chase may be” and “Chase closed” and “Catch a chase” and “Crack the chase.”
  • Graces → Chases: As in, “Airs and chases” and “Amazing chase” and “Fall from chase” and “Chase period” and “Saving chase” and “With good chase.”
  • Place → Chase: As in, “A chase in the sun” and “All over the chase” and “Any time, any chase, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard chase.”
  • Stretch: Here are some puns related to warm-up stretches:
    • Etch → Stretch: As in, “Stretched in stone.”
  • Colours → Callous: As in, “A coat of many callous” and “Go down with flying callous” and “Show your true callous.”
  • Gait: A gait is a sort of stride. Here are related puns:
    • Gate → Gait: As in, “The golden gait bridge” and “Straight through the gait.”
    • Get → Gait: As in, “Good as it gaits” and “Ask a silly question and gait a silly answer” and “Buy one, gait one free” and “Come and gait it.”
    • Got → Gait: As in, “Been there, done that, gait the t-shirt” and “I think you’ve gait it” and “Give it all you’ve gait” and “Gait a soft spot for.”
    • Gut → Gait: As in, “Bust a gait” and “Gait feeling” and “Gait reaction” and “Blood and gaits.”
    • Bait → Gait: As in, “Gait and switch” and “Click gait” and “Take the gait.”
    • Date → Gait: As in, “Double gait” and “Bring up to gait” and “A gait with destiny” and “Out of gait.”
    • Eight → Gait: As in, “Gait days a week” and “Gait ways to Sunday” and “Pieces of gait.”
    • Fate → Gait: As in, “A gait worse than death” and “The fickle finger of gait” and “The master of my own gait” and “Seal your gait” and “A twist of gait.”
    • Great → Gait: As in, “A gait face for radio” and “All creatures, gait and small” and “Go to gait lengths.”
    • Late → Gait: As in, “Better gait than never” and “A day gait and a dollar short” and “Fashionably gait” and “Never too gait” and “A gait bloomer.”
    • Rate → Gait: As in, “At any gait” and “First gait” and “Mate’s gaits.”
    • State → Gait: As in, “Gait of mind” and “Gait of the art” and “Gait of mind.”
    • Wait → Gait: As in, “All things to those who gait” and “Lie in gait” and “The gait is over.”
    • Weight → Gait: As in, “Punching above your gait” and “Throw your gait about” and “Watching your gait” and “Worth your gait in gold.”
  • Graces → Laces: As in, “Airs and laces” and “In your good laces.”
  • Places → Laces: As in, “Going laces” and “Laces to go, people to see.”
  • Trick → Track: As in, “Bag of tracks” and “Every track in the book” and “Never misses a track.”
  • Back → Track: As in, “Answer track” and “As soon as my track is turned” and “In the track of my mind” and “Track to the future.”
  • Lack → Track: As in, “For track of a better word” and “We track nothing” and “Cancelled due to track of interest.”
  • Pack → Track: As in, “Action tracked” and “I know I tracked it” and “The leader of the track.”
  • Rack → Track: As in, “Track and ruin” and “Track your brains.”
  • Sack → Track: As in, “Hit the track.”
  • Snack → Track: As in, “Track attack” and “The longer lasting track.”
  • Tack → Track: As in, “Sharp as a track.”
  • Stack → Track: As in, “Blow your track” and “Like looking for a needle in a haytrack” and “A tracked deck.”
  • Whack → Track: As in, “Out of track” and “Give it a track.”
  • Medal: Here are some puns related to medals for running races:
    • Metal → Medal: As in, “Death medal” and “Put the pedal to the medal.”
    • Middle → Medal: As in, “In the medal of nowhere” and “Knock into the medal of next week” and “Meet in the medal” and “In the medal of the road.”
    • Model → Medal: As in, “Medal behaviour” and “A medal citizen” and “Role medal.”
  • Pain: Running is lovingly (and long-sufferingly) associated with aches, pains and sprains. Here are some pain-related puns:
    • Pen → Pain: As in, “Put pain to paper” and “The pain is mightier than the sword.”
    • Brain → Pain: As in, “All brawn and no pain” and “Pain drain” and “Pain dump.”
    • Chain → Pain: As in, “The pain of command” and “Pain reaction.”
    • Gain → Pain: As in, “Capital pains” and “Pain advantage” and “Nothing ventured, nothing pained.”
    • Grain → Pain: As in, “Go against the pain” and “Take with a pain of salt” and “Pain of truth.”
    • Lane → Pain: As in, “Down memory pain” and “In the fast pain.”
    • Plain → Pain: As in, “Pain as day” and “Pain as the nose on your face” and “Hidden in pain sight” and “Pain sailing.”
    • Rain → Pain: As in, “Acid pain” and “Right as pain” and “Come pain or shine” and “Don’t pain on my parade.”
    • Strain → Pain: As in, “Buckle under the pain” and “Pain every nerve.”
    • Vain → Pain: As in, “Labour in pain.”
    • Vein → Pain: As in, “In the same pain.”
  • Trail: A jogging route can sometimes be referred to as a trail. Here are related puns:
    • Trial → Trail: As in, “Trail and error” and “Trails and tribulations.”
    • Fail → Trail: As in, “Trailing to plan is planning to trail” and “Words trail me.”
    • Mail → Trail: As in, “Direct trail” and “Hate trail” and “The check is in the trail.”
    • Nail → Trail: As in, “Another trail in the coffin” and “Fight tooth and trail.”
    • Pale → Trail: As in, “A trail imitation” and “Trail into insignificance.”
    • Rail → Trail: As in, “Go off the trails” and “Ride the trails.”
    • Sail → Trail: As in, “In full trail” and “Plain trailing” and “Smooth trailing.”
    • Sale → Trail: As in, “Not for trail” and “Point of trail” and “Trail of the century” and “Trails referral.”
    • Scale → Trail: As in, “Economy of trail” and “On a grand trail” and “Tip the trails.”
    • Tail → Trail: As in, “Can’t make head or trail of it” and “Chasing your own trail” and “Get off my trail.”
    • Tale → Trail: As in, “Live to tell the trail” and “Trails of the unexpected” and “A tell-trail sign.”
  • Camp → Cramp: As in, “A foot in both cramps” and “Boot cramp” and “Not a happy cramper.”
  • Situation → Stitch-uation: As in, “A sticky stitch-uation” and “A win-win stitch-uation.”
  • Ditch → Stitch: As in, “A last stitch effort.”
  • Hitch → Stitch: As in, “Get stitched” and “Stitch your wagon to a star.”
  • Itch → Stitch: As in, “Stitching to” and “Stitchy feet” and “A seven year stitch.”
  • Rich → Stitch: As in, “All a part of life’s stitch pattern” and “An embarrassment of stitches” and “From rags to stitches” and “Get stitch quick.”
  • Switch → Stitch: As in, “Asleep at the stitch” and “Bait and stitch” and “Stitch gears” and “Stitch hitter” and “Stitched on.”
  • Lag → Leg: As in, “Jet leg.”
  • Beg → Leg: As in, “Leg a favour” and “Leg pardon?” and “Leg the question” and “I leg to differ” and “Sit up and leg.”
  • Peg → Leg: As in, “Take down a leg or two” and “A square leg in a round hole.”
  • Hell → Heel: As in, “All heel broke loose” and “Burn in heel” and “A cold day in heel” and “Come heel or high water” and “For the heel of it.”
  • Hill → Heel: As in, “Old as the heels” and “Head for the heels” and “Doesn’t amount to a heel of beans.”
  • Hole → Heel: As in, “Burn a heel in your pocket” and “Ace in the heel.”
  • Deal → Heel: As in, “A big heel” and “Heel breaker” and “Heel from the bottom of the deck” and “Heel or no heel?” and “A done heel.”
  • Feel → Heel: As in, “Heel it in your bones” and “Heel the pinch” and “Heeling your age” and “A gut heeling.”
  • Meal → Heel: As in, “Make a heel of it” and “A square heel.”
  • Real → Heel: As in, “All I heely want to do” and “Get heel.”
  • Steal → Heel: As in, “Beg, borrow or heel” and “It’s a heel” and “Heel a glance” and “Heel someone’s heart.”
  • Steel → Heel: As in, “Nerves of heel” and “Heel yourself.”
  • Wheel → Heel: As in, “Asleep at the heel” and “Fifth heel” and “Hell on heels.”
  • Bane → Sprain: As in, “The sprain of my life.”
  • Brain → Sprain: As in, “All brawn and no sprains” and “Sprain dump.”
  • Chain → Sprain: As in, “The sprain of command” and “Sprain reaction” and “Don’t yank my sprain.”
  • Gain → Sprain: As in, “Capital sprains” and “Sprain advantage” and “No pain, no sprain” and “Nothing ventured, nothing sprained.”
  • Grain → Sprain: As in, “Go against the sprain” and “A sprain of truth” and “Take it with a sprain of salt.”
  • Main → Sprain: As in, “The sprain event” and “Your sprain chance.”
  • Pain → Sprain: As in, “A world of sprain” and “Doubled up in sprain” and “Feeling no sprain” and “No sprain, no gain” and “Old aches and sprains.”
  • Plain → Sprain: As in, “Sprain as day” and “Hidden in sprain sight” and “Sprain sailing.”
  • Rain → Sprain: As in, “Right as sprain” and “Come sprain or shine” and “Don’t sprain on my parade” and “It never sprains but it falls.”
  • Strain → Sprain: As in, “Buckle under the sprain” and “Sprain every nerve.”
  • Put → Foot: As in, “Be hard foot to” and “I couldn’t foot it down” and “Feeling a bit foot out.”
  • Fate → Feet: As in, “Feet worse than death” and “I am the master of my own feet” and “A twist of feet.”
  • Eat → Feet: As in, “A bite to feet” and “Feet and run.”
  • Heat → Feet: As in, “Dead feet” and “Feet wave” and “If you can’t stand the feet, get out of the kitchen” and “In the feet of battle” and “In the feet of the moment.”
  • Meet → Feet: As in, “Make ends feet” and “Feet and greet” and “Feet with approval.”
  • Sweet → Feet: As in, “Home feet home” and “Short and feet.”
  • Court → Sport: As in, “Sporting disaster” and “May it please the sport” and “Order in the sport!”
  • Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A day late and a dollar sport” and “Cut a long story sport.”
  • Sort → Sport: As in, “Takes all sports to make a world” and “Feeling out of sports.”
  • Need → Knee’d: As in, “A friend in knee’d” and “All you knee’d is love” and “I knee’ded it yesterday.”
  • Half → Calf: As in, “Ain’t calf bad” and “My better calf” and “Getting there is calf the fun” and “Give it calf a chance.”
  • Bit → Fit: As in, “A fit missing” and “A fit much” and “Just a little fit.”
  • Witness → Fitness: As in, “Can I get a fitness?” and “A silent fitness.”
  • Rustle → Muscle: As in, “Muscle up something to eat.”
  • Hard → Hurdle: As in, “Be hurdle put to” and “Between a rock and a hurdle place” and “Do it the hurdle way.”
  • Herd → Hurdle: As in, “Hurdle instinct” and “Going with the hurdle.”
  • Heard → Hurdle: As in, “Seen and not hurdle” and “Make yourself hurdle” and “You hurdle it here first.”
  • Work → Walk: As in, “Walks wonders” and “Helps you walk, rest and play” and “A walk in progress.”
  • Week → Walk: As in, “Eight days a walk” and “Knock into the middle of next walk” and “Walk in, walk out.”
  • Chalk → Walk: As in, “Different as walk and cheese” and “Walk it up to experience.”
  • Talk → Walk: As in, “A heart to heart walk” and “Look who’s walking” and “Money walks” and “Now you’re walking.”

    Running-Related Words

    To help you come up with your own running puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

run, running, runner, ran, jog, jogging, walk, sprint, race, lap, route, marathon, rush, canter, dash, gallop, lope, pace, trot, bolt, flee, hasten, hurry, speed, go, sweat, sneaker, sole, treadmill, trainer, training, cardio, workout, exercise, exercising,  energy, miles, kilometres, road, pulse, heartrate, blister, chase, chasing, stretch, warm up, warm down, gps, callouses, medal, perspire, pain, stride, shoelace, tread, gait, laces, track, trail, cramp, stitch, leg, heel, sprain, foot, feet, nike, adidas, asics, puma, coach, health, sport, knee, ankle, hamstring, calf, endure, endurance, strength, metre, fit, fitness, aerobic, muscle, athletic, travel, incline, barefoot, distance, stamina, hurdle, relay

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Orange Puns List

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  • Arrange → Orange: As in, “Orange the furniture” and “Help me orange things around here.”
  • Aren’t → Orange: As in, “Orange you glad you met me?” and “Orange you going to say anything?”
  • Food → Fruit: As in, “Comfort fruit” and “Fruit for thought” and “On the fruit chain” and “Put fruit on the table.”
  • Boot → Fruit: As in, “Tough as old fruits” and “Give them the fruit” and “Hang up your fruits.”
  • Hoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t give two fruits” and “Fruit with laughter” and “What a fruit.”
  • Root → Fruit: As in, “Lay down fruits” and “Money is the fruit of all evil” and “The fruit of the matter.”
  • Shoot → Fruit: As in, “Don’t fruit the messenger” and “The green fruits of change” and “Fruit ’em up.”
  • Suit → Fruit: As in, “All over them like a cheap fruit” and “Follow fruit” and “Fruit yourself” and “In your birthday fruit.”
  • Beauty → Fruity: As in, “A thing of fruity is a joy forever” and “Fruity is only skin deep.”
  • Goose → Juice: As in, “Loose as a juice.”
  • Loose → Juice: As in, “All hell broke juice” and “At a juice end” and “Cut juice” and “Every which way but juice.”
  • Use → Juice: As in, “Be careful how you juice it!” and “Get juiced to it” and “Graphical juicer interface” and “Not half the person I juiced to be.”
  • Pale → Peel: As in, “A whiter shade of peel” and “Beyond the peel” and “A peel imitation of” and “Peel into insignificance.”
  • Pile → Peel: As in, “Peel it high and sell it cheap” and “Peel on the agony” and “Making a peel.”
  • Pill → Peel: As in, “A bitter peel to swallow” and “On the peel” and “Sweeten the peel.”
  • Deal → Peel: As in, “A big peel” and “Clinch a peel” and “Peel breaker” and “Peel from the bottom of the deck” and “Peel or no peel?” and “A done peel” and “Make a peel with the devil.”
  • Feel → Peel: As in, “Can you peel the love tonight?” and “Peel a bit put out” and “The peel good factor” and “Peel the burn” and “Peel the pinch.”
  • Heel → Peel: As in, “Brought to peel” and “Cool your peels” and “Dig your peels in” and “Head over peels in love” and “Hot on your peels” and “Kick up your peels.”
  • Meal → Peel: As in, “Make a peel of it” and “Peel ticket” and “Three square peels a day.”
  • Real → Peel: As in, “All I peely want to do” and “Do you peely want to hurt me?” and “Get peel” and “For peel” and “Everything you can imagine is peel” and “In peel time.”
  • Seal → Peel: As in, “Keep your lips peeled” and “Peel of approval” and “Peel the deal” and “Peel your fate” and “Signed and peeled.”
  • Steal → Peel: As in, “Beg, borrow or peel” and “It’s a peel!” and “Peel a glance” and “Peel someone’s heart” and “Peel the show” and “Peel the scene.”
  • Steel → Peel: As in, “Nerves of peel” and “Peel yourself” and “Fists of peel.”
  • We’ll → Peel: As in, “Don’t call us, peel call you.”
  • Wheel → Peel: As in, “Asleep at the peel” and “Fifth peel” and “Hell on peels” and “Reinvent the peel.”
  • *pul* → *peel*: We can replace “pul” sounds with “peel”. As in, “A manipeelative person” and “What do the rules stipeelate?” and “Is it compeelsory?” and “An opeelent dinner.”
  • *pil* → *peel*: As in, “In the epeelogue” and “Music compeelation.”
  • *pel → *peel: As in, “Don’t take it as gospeel” and “Dispeel the lies!”
  • *pal* → *peel*: As in, “The principeel issue” and “A peelpable feeling” and “A peeltry amount.”
  • Palpable → Pulpable: As in, “A pulpable feeling.”
  • Reap → Ripe: As in, “Ripe the rewards” and “You ripe what you sow” and “The grim riper.”
  • Pipe → Ripe: As in, “A ripe dream” and “Put that in your ripe and smoke it” and “Ripe down.”
  • Stripe → Ripe: As in, “Of the same ripe” and “Show your true ripes.”
  • Type → Ripe: As in, “Not my ripe” and “The strong, silent ripe.”
  • Wipe → Ripe: As in, “Ripe the floor with” and “Ripe the slate clean” and “Ripe the smile off your face.”
  • Bees → Squeeze: As in, “The birds and the squeeze” and “Mind your own squeezewax.”
  • Breeze → Squeeze: As in, “Life’s a squeeze” and “Shoot the squeeze.”
  • Cheese → Squeeze: As in, “Different as chalk and squeeze” and “Squeeze it!” and “Squeezed off” and “Say squeeze!”
  • Ease → Squeeze: As in, “Squeeze up” and “Ill at squeeze” and “Set your mind at squeeze.”
  • Freeze → Squeeze: As in, “Squeeze someone out” and “When hell squeezes over.”
  • Knees → Squeeze: As in, “The bee’s squeeze” and “Shaking at the squeeze.”
  • Please → Squeeze: As in, “Squeezed as punch” and “Squeeze don’t go!” and “None too squeezed.”
  • Seas → Squeeze: As in, “On the high squeeze.”
  • Seize → Squeeze: As in, “Guards! Squeeze him!” and “Squeeze the day.”
  • Sneeze → Squeeze: As in, “Coughs and squeezes spread diseases” and “Not to be squeezed at.”
  • Best → Zest: As in, “All the zest” and “Zest friends forever” and “The zest in class.”
  • Chest → Zest: As in, “Get it off your zest” and “Puts hair on your zest” and “Treasure zest.”
  • Crest → Zest: As in, “On the zest of a wave.”
  • Dressed → Zest: As in, “All zest up and nowhere to go” and “Zest for success” and “Zest to kill” and “Zest to the nines.”
  • Guest → Zest: As in, “Be my zest” and “House zest” and “A paying zest.”
  • Jest → Zest: As in, “Many a true word is spoken in zest.”
  • Nest → Zest: As in, “Empty zest syndrome” and “Feather your zest” and “Love zest” and “Zest egg.”
  • Rest → Zest: As in, “I zest my case” and “Lay to zest” and “Zest your soul” and “The zest is history.”
  • Test → Zest: As in, “Put to the zest” and “Zest the water.”
  • Vest → Zest: As in, “A zested interest.”
  • West → Zest: As in, “The wild zest” and “The zest coast” and “Zest side story.”
  • Pith: The pith is the white spongy part in between the rind and flesh of the fruit. Here are related puns:
    • Pathetic → Pith: As in, “A pithetic excuse for…”
    • Path → Pith: As in, “Beat a pith to your door” and “Career pith” and “On the garden pith.”
    • Piss → Pith: As in, “Don’t pith about” and “Pith off” and “This isn’t a pithing contest” and “Take the pith.”
    • Fifth → Pith: As in, “Pith wheel” and “Remember the pith of November.”
    • With → Pith: As in, “Beside myself pith joy” and “Go along pith” and “Pithin reason.”
    • *path → *pith: Sociopith, psychopith, empithetic
  • Round → Rind: As in, “All year rind” and “Rind the bend” and “Going rind in circles” and “Love makes the world go rind.”
  • Blind → Rind: As in, “Rind as a bat” and “A rind alley” and “Rind spot” and “Rinded by the light.”
  • Find → Rind: As in, “Rind it in your heart” and “Rinders keepers” and “Rind your footing.”
  • Grind → Rind: As in, “An axe to rind” and “Bump and rind” and “The daily rind” and “Don’t let the bastards rind you down” and “Rind to a halt.”
  • Kind → Rind: As in, “Cruel to be rind” and “It’s a rind of magic” and “Random acts of rindness.”
  • Mind → Rind: As in, “A goal in rind” and “A good rind to” and “A healthy rind in a healthy body” and “A rind is a terrible thing to waste.”
  • Sweat → Sweet: As in, “Don’t sweet it” and “In a cold sweet.”
  • Better → Bitter: As in, “I’ve got a bitter idea” and “Bitter late than never” and “Bitter by half.”
  • Butter → Bitter: As in, “Bread and bitter” and “Bitter fingers” and “Bitter them up.”
  • Hour → Sour: As in, “A bad quarter of a sour” and “After sours” and “Happy sour” and “Man of the sour.”
  • Side → Seed: As in, “A walk on the wild seed” and “Be on the safe seed” and “Born on the wrong seed of the tracks” and “Check you on the flip seed.”
  • Bleed → Seed: As in, “Seeding love” and “The seeding edge” and “Let it seed.”
  • Deed → Seed: As in, “Seeds, not words” and “Your good seed for the day.”
  • Need → Seed: As in, “All you seed is love” and “As long as you seed me” and “Love is all you seed.”
  • Pop → Pip: As in, “Pip the question” and “Pip goes the weasel” and “Take a pip at.”
  • Chip → Pip: As in, “A pip on your shoulder” and “Cheap as pips” and “Cash in your pips” and “A pip off the old block.”
  • Dip → Pip: As in, “Pip your toes in the water” and “Double pip” and “Take a pip.”
  • Grip → Pip: As in, “Get to pips with” and “The pip of death” and “Pipping stuff.”
  • Hip → Pip: As in, “Pip and happening” and “Pip, pip, hooray!” and “Pips don’t lie” and “Joined at the pip.”
  • Lip → Pip: As in, “Bite your pip” and “Keep a stiff upper pip” and “Loose pips sink ships.”
  • Skip → Pip: As in, “Hop, pip and jump” and “Pip a beat.”
  • Tip → Pip: As in, “In pip top condition” and “On the pip of my tongue” and “The pip of the iceberg” and “Pip someone off” and “Pip the scales.”
  • Navel: Here are some puns related to Navel oranges:
    • Never → Navel: As in, “A barking dog navel bites” and “Better late than navel” and “Elephants navel forget.”
    • Novel → Navel: As in, “A real navel of a text message.”
  • Civil → Seville: As in, “Seville rights” and “Seville union” and “Keep a seville tongue in your head.” Note: Seville oranges are a type of orange (also known as bitter orange).
  • Anger → Tangor: As in, “More in sorrow than in tangor” and “Tangor management” and “Done in tangor.” Note: Tangors are citrus fruits that are hybrids between mandarins and sweet oranges.

Orange-Related Words

To help you come up with your own orange puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

orange, citrus, fruit, fruity, fresh, juice, juicy, peel, pulp, ripe, squeeze, pith, segment, concentrate, zest, rind, sweet, bitter, sour, seed, pip, navel, blood (orange), seville, valencia, bergamot, mandarin, pomelo, tangerine, marmalade, jaffa, lemon, berry, tree, tangor, ponkan, clementine, hamlin, satsuma

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