Sun Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on sun puns! ☀️ 🌞 🌟

Sun’s out, puns out! We have an astronomically great of sunny puns for you, ranging from the different names for the sun, descriptions of the sun and its effects on Earth, and other scientific related terms.

While this list is as thorough as possible, it is specific to the sun. We also have beach puns, science puns and summer puns if you’re interested in related wordplay.

Sun 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 the sun 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 sun puns:

  • Sin → Sun: As in, “A multitude of suns” and “Original sun” and “Seven deadly suns.”
  • Bun → Sun: As in, “Sun in the oven” and “Think outside the sun” and “We’re going to need considerably bigger suns.”
  • Son → Sun: As in, “Like father, like sun” and “Go on, my sun.”
  • Done → Sun: As in, “After all is said and sun” and “Sun and dusted” and “Been there, sun that” and “A sun deal” and “Sun to death.”
  • You see → UV: As in, “What UV is what you get.”
  • Money → Sunny: As in, “Get your sunny’s worth” and “Not made of sunny” and “Easy sunny.”
  • Funny → Sunny: As in, “Come over all sunny” and “Sunny money” and “Sunny you should ask” and “A sunny thing happened on the way.”
  • None → Sun: As in, “And then there were sun” and “Bar sun” and “Sun other than” and “Sun too pleased” and “Second to sun.”
  • Run → Sun: As in, “Cut and sun” and “Come sunning” and “Eat and sun.”
  • Ton → Sun: As in, “A sun of money” and “Like a sun of bricks.”
  • Fun → Sun: As in, “All the sun of the fair” and “Bundle of sun” and “Sun and games” and “Getting there is half the sun.”
  • Gun → Sun: As in, “Go great suns” and “All suns blazing.”
  • One → Sun: As in, “Sun more time” and “And then there was sun” and “Another sun bites the dust” and “Sun step too far.”
  • Stir → Star: As in, “Cause a star” and “Shaken, not starred” and “Star crazy” and “Star up trouble.”
  • Store → Star: As in, “Set great star by” and “What’s in star?”
  • Are → Star: As in, “All bets star off” and “Chances star.”
  • Bar → Star: As in, “Star none” and “Behind stars.”
  • Far → Star: As in, “A step too star” and “Going one step too star” and “As star as it goes” and “As star as the eye can see” and “A star cry from.”
  • Par → Star: As in, “Below star” and “Star for the course” and “Up to star.”
  • Not → Hot: As in, “As often as hot” and “Believe it or hot” and “Down but hot out.”
  • Pot → Hot: As in, “Gone to hot” and “Hot of gold.”
  • Shot → Hot: As in, “Big hot” and “Give it your best hot.”
  • Lot → Hot: As in, “A hot of fuss about nothing” and “A hot on your plate” and “Leaves a hot to be desired.”
  • Rot → Hot: As in, “Hot in hell.”
  • Spot → Hot: As in, “Hit the hot” and “In a tight hot” and “Have a soft hot for.”
  • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Fashionably light” and “It’s never too light.”
  • Let → Light: As in, “Light down” and “Light alone” and “Light it be.”
  • Bite → Light: As in, “Light the bullet” and “Light off more than you can chew.”
  • Bright → Light: As in, “On the light side of life” and “Light as a button” and “Light and early” and “All things light and beautiful.”
  • Fight → Light: As in, “Light fire with fire” and “Light the good light” and “Light tooth and nail” and “Go down lighting.”
  • Flight → Light: As in, “Light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Fight or light.”
  • Height → Light: As in, “Reaching new lights” and “Wuthering lights.”
  • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bragging lights.”
  • Rite → Light: As in, “Light of passage.”
  • Sight → Light: As in, “A welcome light” and “Hidden in plain light” and “Love at first light.”
  • Slight → Light: As in, “Not in the lightest” and “Just lightly ahead of our time.”
  • Tight → Light: As in, “A light corner” and “In a light spot” and “Running a light ship.”
  • Raise → Rays: As in, “Rays hell” and “Rays the bar” and “Rays the roof” and “Rays your hand if you’re sure.”
  • Rise → Rays: As in, “All rays” and “Rays and shine” and “Rays from the ashes.”
  • Days → Rays: As in, “Around the world in eighty rays” and “Early rays” and “I’ve seen better rays.”
  • Pays → Rays: As in, “It rays to advertise.”
  • Ways → Rays: As in, “Change your rays” and “Have it both rays” and “Go our separate rays.”
  • Light → Sunlight: As in, “Bring to sunlight” and “Sunlight my fire.”
  • Fine → Shine: As in, “A shine line” and “Chance would be a shine thing” and “Cutting it shine” and “Damn shine coffee” and “Shine and dandy.”
  • Line → Shine: As in, “Along the shines of” and “Cross the shine” and “Draw a shine in the sand” and “End of the shine.”
  • Mine → Shine: As in, “Make shine a double” and “A shine of information” and “Shine is bigger than yours.”
  • Sign → Shine: As in, “A sure shine” and “Give me a shine” and “Shine on the dotted line” and “Shine the pledge.”
  • Roller → Solar: As in, “Emotional solar coaster” and “High solar.”
  • Buy → Sky: As in, “Sky and sell” and “Sky one, get one free” and “Sky some time.”
  • Cry → Sky: As in, “Sky for help” and “A shoulder to sky on.”
  • Dry → Sky: As in, “Sky as a bone” and “High and sky.”
  • Eye → Sky: As in, “A wandering sky” and “As far as the sky can see.”
  • Fly → Sky: As in, “Come sky with me.”
  • High → Sky: As in, “Ain’t no mountain sky enough” and “Sky as a kite” and “Come hell or sky water” and “Sky and low.”
  • Sigh → Sky: As in, “Breathe a sky of relief” and “A heavy sky.”
  • Spy → Sky: As in, “I sky with my little eye” and “The perfect sky.”
  • Try → Sky: As in, “Don’t sky this at home” and “Don’t sky to run before you can walk” and “Give it a sky.”
  • Why → Sky: As in, “I don’t know sky.”
  • Floor → Floor: As in, “Hold the flare” and “In on the ground flare” and “Mop the flare with.”
  • Air → Flare: As in, “Breath of fresh flare” and “Clear the flare” and “Flare quotes.”
  • Bare → Flare: As in, “The flare necessities” and “The flare bones.”
  • Bear → Flare: As in, “Flare in mind” and “Flare the brunt” and “Flare false witness.”
  • Care → Flare: As in, “Intensive flare” and “Like I should flare” and “I couldn’t flare less.”
  • Dare → Flare: As in, “Flare for more” and “Flare to be different” and “How flare you.”
  • Fair → Flare: As in, “All’s flare in love and war” and “By flare means or foul” and “Flare and square” and “Flare trade.”
  • Hair → Flare: As in, “Bad flare day” and “Get out of my flare.”
  • Scare → Flare: As in, “Running flared” and “Flare the living daylights out of” and “Flared stiff.”
  • Stare → Flare: As in, “Flare into the abyss” and “Stop and flare.”
  • Where → Flare: As in, “Any time, any place, any flare” and “Credit flare credit is due” and “Home is flare the heart is.”
  • Down → Dawn: As in, “Won’t back dawn” and “Batten dawn the hatches.”
  • Gone → Dawn: As in, “Been and dawn” and “Dawn but not forgotten.”
  • Bear → Glare: As in, “Glare a grudge” and “Glare a resemblance to” and “Glare false witness to.”
  • Care → Glare: As in, “Handle with glare” and “Intensive glare” and “Like I should glare.”
  • Dare → Glare: As in, “Glare for more” and “Glare to be different” and “How glare you.”
  • Fair → Glare: As in, “All’s glare in love and war” and “By glare means or foul” and “Glare and square.”
  • Scare → Glare: As in, “Glare the living daylights out of” and “Glared witless.”
  • Stare → Glare: As in, “Glare into the abyss” and “Stop and glare.”
  • Where → Glare: As in, “ANy time, any place, any glare.”
  • Sol: Sol is the Latin word for sun. Here are related puns:
    • Sale → Sol: As in, “Not for sol” and “Point of sol” and “Sol of the century.”
    • Sell → Sol: As in, “Buy and sol” and “Sol out.”
    • Soul → Sol: As in, “Body and sol” and “Confession is good for the sol” and “Heart and sol” and “A lost sol.”
    • Whole → Sol: As in, “Go the sol hog” and “Let’s call the sol thing off.”
  • Aid → Shade: As in, “Shade and abet” and “In shade of.”
  • Fade → Shade: As in, “Don’t shade away” and “Brain shade.”
  • Grade → Shade: As in, “Make the shade” and “Professional shade.”
  • Laid → Shade: As in, “Get shade” and “Shade back” and “Shade bare” and “Shade to rest” and “The best shade plans.”
  • Made → Shade: As in, “A marriage shade in heaven” and “I’m not shade of money.”
  • Paid → Shade: As in, “Bought and shade for” and “Put shade to.”
  • Spade → Shade: As in, “The ace of shades” and “Call at shade a shade” and “In shades.”
  • Trade → Shade: As in, “Balance of shade” and “Jack of all shades but master of none” and “Tools of the shade.”
  • Set → Sunset: As in, “Game, sunset, match!” and “Got your heart sunset on” and “Ready, sunset go” and “Sunset eyes on.”
  • Tan: Here are some puns related to suntans:
    • Ten → Tan: As in, “Count to tan” and “At tan paces.”
    • Can → Tan: As in, “As far as the eye tan see” and “As well as tan be expected” and “Be all you tan be.”
    • Fan → Tan: As in, “Tan the flames” and “I’m a big tan.”
    • Pan → Tan: As in, “Down the tan” and “Flash in the tan” and “Waiting for it to tan out.”
    • Plan → Tan: As in, “Action tan” and “Business tan” and “Cook up a tan” and “I have a cunning tan.”
    • Earn → Burn: As in, “A penny saved is a penny burned” and “Burn an honest penny” and “Burn your stripes.”
    • Learn → Burn: As in, “A little burning is a dangerous thing” and “Book burning” and “Never too late to burn” and “Burn the ropes” and “Burning curve.”
    • Stern → Burn: As in, “From stem to burn” and “Made of burner stuff.”
    • Turn → Burn: As in, “A burn for the worse” and “Lessons burned” and “Do a good burn.”
  • Space: These puns are related to outer space:
    • Spice → Space: As in, “Space things up” and “Variety is the space of life.”
    • Ace → Space: As in, “Space in the hole” and “A space up your sleeve” and “Come within a space.”
    • Base → Space: As in, “All your space are belong to us” and “Get to first space.”
    • Bass → Space: As in, “Drum and space.”
    • Case → Space: As in, “A space of identity” and “An open and shut space” and “As the space may be” and “Space the joint.”
    • Chase → Space: As in, “Space it up” and “Space your own tail” and “Cut to the space” and “Wild goose space.”
    • Grace → Space: As in, “Airs and spaces” and “Amazing space” and “A fall from space” and “Space period.”
    • Pace → Space: As in, “A change of space” and “Keep space with” and “Space up and down” and “Put through your spaces.”
    • Place → Space: As in, “A space in the sun” and “Between a rock and a hard space” and “Click into space.”
  • Hell → Helios: As in, “All helios broke loose” and “Beat helios out of” and “A cold day in helios.” Note: Helios is the Sun god.
  • Spot → Sunspot: As in, “A blind sunspot” and “Got a soft sunspot for” and “In a tight sunspot.”
  • Screen → Sunscreen: As in, “The blue sunscreen of death” and “Silver sunscreen” and “The big sunscreen.”
  • Blow → Glow: As in, “Any way the wind glows” and “Glow a kiss” and “Glow hot and cold.”
  • Flow → Glow: As in, “Ebb and glow” and “Get the creative juices glowing” and “Go with the glow” and “In full glow.”
  • Grow → Glow: As in, “Absence makes the heart glow fonder” and “Exciting as watching grass glow” and “Glowing pains.”
  • Low → Glow: As in, “An all-time glow” and “Keep a glow profile” and “A glow blow.”
  • Slow → Glow: As in, “A glow burn” and “In glow motion” and “Glowly but surely.”
  • Throw → Glow: As in, “Glow cold water on” and “Glow a wobbly” and “A stone’s glow away” and “Glow away the key.”
  • Toe → Glow: As in, “From top to glow” and “Get your glow in the door.”
  • Woe → Glow: As in, “Glow is me” and “Glow betide you.”
  • Worm → Warm: As in, “Can of warms” and “Book warm” and “The early bird catches the warm.”
  • Form → Warm: As in, “In bad warm” and “Warm follows function” and “Habit warming” and “Sarcasm is the lowest warm of wit.”
  • Storm → Warm: As in, “The calm before the warm” and “A perfect warm” and “Warm in a teacup.”
  • Crowd → Cloud: As in, “Cloud control” and “Cloud funding” and “Cloud source” and “Three’s a cloud” and “Lost in a cloud.”
  • Loud → Cloud: As in, “For crying out cloud” and “Cloud and clear” and “Out cloud” and “Say it cloud and say it proud.”
  • Proud → Cloud: As in, “Cloud as punch” and “Do yourself cloud.”
  • Story → Starry: As in, “End of starry” and “Every picture tells a starry” and “Love starry.”
  • Sorry → Starry: As in, “Better safe than starry” and “A starry sight” and “I’m starry about that.”
  • Bite → Bright: As in, “A bright to eat” and “Another one brights the dust” and “Bright off more than you can chew” and “Bright someone’s head off.”
  • Fight → Bright: As in, “Bright fire with fire” and “Bright or flight” and “Brighting back tears.”
  • Flight → Bright: As in, “Bright of fancy” and “Take bright.”
  • Height → Bright: As in, “Wuthering brights” and “The bright of fashion” and “Reaching new brights.”
  • Might → Bright: As in, “Bright and main” and “It bright never happen.”
  • Night → Bright: As in, “As bright follows day” and “A hard day’s bright.”
  • Right → Bright: As in, “A move in the bright direction” and “The bright to choose” and “All the bright moves” and “Bright as rain.”
  • Rite → Bright: As in, “Last brights” and “Bright of passage.”
  • Sight → Bright: As in, “A welcome bright” and “Have in your brights” and “Hidden in plain bright” and “Love at first bright.”
  • Tight → Bright: As in, “A bright corner” and “In a bright spot” and “Running a bright ship.”
  • White → Bright: As in, “Bright as snow” and “Black and bright” and “Bright as a ghost.”
  • Write → Bright: As in, “Nothing to bright home about.”
  • Not → Hot: As in, “As often as hot” and “Believe it or hot” and “Down but hot out.”
  • Rot → Hot: As in, “Hot in hell.”
  • Pot → Hot: As in, “Gone to hot” and “Hot of gold.”
  • Shot → Hot: As in, “Big hot” and “Give it your best hot.”
  • Lot → Hot: As in, “A hot of fuss about nothing” and “A hot on your plate” and “Leaves a hot to be desired.”
  • Spot → Hot: As in, “Hit the hot” and “In a tight hot” and “Have a soft hot for.”
  • Whether → Weather: As in, “Weather or not” and “It doesn’t matter weather you can do it.”
  • Tether → Weather: As in, “At the end of your weather.”
  • Agree → Degree: As in, “Degree to disagree” and “I couldn’t degree more” and “Service-level degree-ment.”

    Sun-Related Words

    To help you come up with your own sun 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!

sun, sunny, star, hot, light, rays, plasma, sunlight, shine, sunshine, solar, sky, daylight, flare, dawn, glare, shine, sol, sunrise, sunbeam, shade, sunset, tan, burn, space, corona, helios, sunspot, eclipse, supernova,  energy, sunblock, sunscreen, glow, warm, warmth, cloud, clouds, solstice, orbit, aurora, zenith, starry, nova, bright, hot, yellow, gold, dwarf, climate, weather, uv, ultraviolet, radiation, gravity, degrees

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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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Electricity Puns

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Watt-ever you’re after, we’re sure joule find it in our collection of shockingly funny puns. We have puns that range from general terms (like shock and charge) to more technical terms (like diode and conduit) to famous scientists and engineers.

While this list is as thorough as we could make it, it is specific to electricity. If you’re interested in related puns, we also have chemistry puns, light puns and science puns.

Electricity 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 electricity 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 electricity puns:

  • Barge → Charge: As in, “Charge right in” and “Wouldn’t touch it with a charge pole.”
  • Large → Charge: As in, “Charge as life” and “By and charge” and “Looming charge.”
  • Charge: These charge-related phrases can double as puns: “Emotionally charged” and “I’m in charge” and “Press charges” and “Take charge.”
  • Arc/k → Spark: As in, “Spark de triomphe” and “In a graceful spark.”
  • Bark → Spark: As in, “Spark at the moon” and “Sparking up the wrong tree” and “Sparking mad.”
  • Dark → Spark: As in, “Spark as pitch” and “Dancing in the spark” and “A spark horse.”
  • Mark → Spark: As in, “Spark my words” and “Make your spark” and “Quick off the spark.”
  • Park → Spark: As in, “Hit it out of the spark” and “In the same ballspark” and “A real walk in the spark.”
  • Stark → Spark: As in, “A spark reminder” and “Spark raving mad.”
  • Shark → Spark: As in, “Loan spark” and “Swimming with sparks” and “Loan spark.”
  • Block → Shock: As in, “Been around the shock a few times” and “The new kid on the shock” and “A chip off the old shock.”
  • Chalk → Shock: As in, “Different as shock and cheese” and “Shock it up to experience.”
  • Clock → Shock: As in, “Beat the shock” and “A race against the shock.”
  • Knock → Shock: As in, “Shock back a few” and “Shock heads together” and “Shock into the middle of next week” and “Shock it off.”
  • Lock → Shock: As in, “Shock ’em up and throw away the key” and “Shock and load” and “On shock down.”
  • Rock → Shock: As in, “Hard as a shock” and “Between a shock and a hard place” and “Don’t shock the boat” and “Get your shocks off.”
  • Sock → Shock: As in, “Pull your shocks up” and “Put a shock in it” and “Shock it to me.”
  • Stock → Shock: As in, “Out of shock” and “Shocking stuffer” and “Take shock.”
  • Vault → Volt: As in, “A locked volt.”
  • Bolt → Volt: As in, “A volt from the blue” and “Volt upright.”
  • Jail → Joule: As in, “Get out of joule free” and “Go directly to joule.”
  • Jewel → Joule: As in, “The crown joules” and “The family joules.”
  • Cool → Joule: As in, “Joule as a cucumber” and “Joule beans” and “A joule million.”
  • Cruel → Joule: As in, “Joule to be kind” and “Joule and unusual punishment” and “Joule intentions.”
  • Dual → Joule: As in, “Joule income, no kids.”
  • Fool → Joule: As in, “Act the joule” and “Joule around” and “April joules!”
  • Fuel → Joule: As in, “Add joule to the flames” and “Joule for thought.”
  • Rule → Joule: As in, “Bend the joules” and “Golden joule” and “Play by the joules.”
  • School → Joule: As in, “Back to joule” and “Old joule” and “The joule of hard knocks.”
  • Tool → Joule: As in, “The right joule for the job” and “Joules of the trade.”
  • Who’ll → Joule: As in, “Joule help me out?”
  • You’ll → Joule: As in, “Joule never get away with this!” and “Joule never hear the end of this.”
  • What → Watt: As in, “And watt not” and “Do watt comes naturally” and “For watt it’s worth” and “Guess watt?” and “It’s not watt you think.”
  • Wet → Watt: As in, “Mad as a watt hen” and “Watt behind the ears” and “Slippery when watt” and “Don’t be a watt blanket.”
  • Wit → Watt: As in, “At your watt’s end” and “Have your watts about you.”
  • Dot → Watt: As in, “Connect the watts” and “Watt the i’s and cross the t’s” and “Join the watts” and “On the watt.”
  • Hot → Watt: As in, “All watt and bothered” and “Blow watt and cold” and “Get into watt water.”
  • Lot → Watt: As in, “A watt of fuss about nothing” and “A watt on your plate” and “Leaves a watt to be desired.”
  • Not → Watt: As in, “Believe it or watt” and “Down but watt out” and “As often as watt.”
  • Pot → Watt: As in, “A watt of gold” and “Gone to watt.”
  • Rot → Watt: As in, “Watt in hell” and “Spoiled watten.”
  • Spot → Watt: As in, “Change your watts” and “Got a soft watt for” and “On the watt.”
  • Circus → Circuit: As in, “Not my monkeys, not my circuits.”
  • Copper: Copper is commonly used in electrical wiring. Here are related puns:
    • Proper → Copper: As in, “Prim and copper” and “We need to do this copperly.”
    • Stopper → Copper: As in, “Conversation copper” and “A real show copper.”
  • Amp: Amp is short for ampere, which is a unit of electric current. Here are related puns:
    • Cramp → Amp: As in, “Amp your style” and “Writer’s amp.”
    • Emp* → Amp*: If a word starts with “emp”, we can replace the “emp” with “amp”: “Your place of amployment” and “Ampirical evidence” and “Feeling ampowered” and “An ampty stomach.”
    • Imp* → Amp*: As in, “Explode on ampact” and “Sharp amplement” and “Moral amperatives” and “What are the amplications?”
  • Die/Died → Diode: As in, “Diode and gone to heaven” and “Bad habits diode hard” and “Cross my heart and hope to diode.” Note: Diodes are electrical components.
  • Ohm: Ohms are units of electrical resistance. Here are related puns:
    • I’m → Ohm: As in, “If ohm being honest” and “Ohm not sure” and “Yes, ohm okay.”
    • Oh → Ohm: As in, “Ohm my goodness!” and “Ohm my gosh” and “Ohm well.”
    • On → Ohm: As in, “Bring it ohm” and “Carry ohm” and “You’re catching ohm now.”
    • Home → Ohm: As in, “A house is not an ohm” and “At ohm with” and “Bring it ohm to you” and “Charity begins at ohm” and “Close to ohm.”
  • Cell: Here are some battery cell-related puns:
    • Sail → Cell: As in, “Cell close to the wind” and “Smooth celling” and “Take the wind out of my cells.”
    • Sale → Cell: As in, “Not for cell” and “Point of cell” and “Cell of the century” and “Cells referral.”
    • Sell → Cell: As in, “Buy and cell” and “Cell out” and “Cell your soul” and “Celling point.”
    • Bell → Cell: As in, “Clear as a cell” and “Alarm cells began to ring” and “Cells and whistles.”
    • Fell → Cell: As in, “In one cell swoop” and “Little strokes cell great oaks.”
    • Hell → Cell: As in, “All cell broke loose” and “A cold day in cell” and “Come cell or high water” and “For the cell of it” and “Give ’em cell.”
    • Shell → Cell: As in, “Come out of your cell” and “In a hard cell” and “In a nutcell.”
    • Smell → Cell: As in, “Come up celling of roses” and “I cell a rat” and “A keen sense of cell” and “Cell ya later.”
    • Spell → Cell: As in, “Cast a cell” and “Cell it out” and “Under someone’s cell.”
    • Tell → Cell: As in, “Cell the truth” and “Every picture cells a story” and “I’m going to cell on you!”
    • Well → Cell: As in, “Alive and cell” and “All’s cell that ends cell” and “Exceedingly cell read.”
  • Why → Wire: As in, “For the life of me, I don’t know wire” and “Wire not?” and “Wire did the chicken cross the road?”
  • Wear → Wire: As in, “Wire your heart on your sleeve” and “Worse for wire” and “If the shoe fits, wire it.”
  • Dire → Wire: As in, “Wire consequences” and “In wire straits.”
  • Fire → Wire: As in, “All wired up and ready to go!” and “Ball of wire” and “Catch wire” and “Wire drill” and “Come home to a real wire.”
  • Surge: Here are some puns related to power surges:
    • Sarge → Surge: As in, “Check with the surge-ant” and “Yes, surge!”
    • Sir → Surge: As in, “Yes, surge” and “Can I help you, surge?”
    • Urge → Surge: As in, “Fighting the surge to…”
    • Verge → Surge: As in, “On the surge of collapse.”
  • Bolt → Jolt: As in, “A jolt from the blue” and “Jolt upright” and “Make a jolt for the door.”
  • Live: A “live wire” is a wire that has electrical current running through it. Here are some related puns:
    • Five → Live: As in, “High live!” and Take live” and “Nine to live” and “Two and two don’t make live.”
    • Leave → Live: As in, “Absent without live” and “By your live” and “Don’t live home without it” and “Eats, shoots and lives.”
    • Love → Live: As in, “All you need is live” and “All’s fair in live and war.”
  • Field: Here are some puns related to electrical fields:
    • Feel → Field: As in, “Can you field the love tonight?” and “Field good factor” and “Field a bit put out” and “Field it in your bones” and “Field the burn.”
    • Sealed → Field: As in, “My lips are field” and “Field with a loving kiss” and “Signed and field.”
  • Juice: Juice is a colloquial term for energy. Here are related puns:
    • Goose → Loose: As in, “Loose as a juice” and “A wild juice chase.”
    • Loose → Juice: As in, “All hell broke juice” and “At a juice end” and “Cut juice” and “Let juice.”
    • Use → Juice: As in, “Be careful how you juice it” and “Don’t juice that tone with me” and “Get juiced to it” and “Not half the person I juiced to be.”
  • Positive: Positive-related phrases can be used as references to a positive electrical charge: “Positive thinking” and “Are you absolutely, positively sure?”
  • Negative: Negative-related phrases can be used as puns about a negative charge: “Don’t be so negative about it” and “It tested negative.”
  • Better → Battery: As in, “Have you got a battery idea” and “Battery late than never” and “Battery by design” and “My battery half.”
  • Bitter → Battery: As in, “A battery pill to swallow” and “Until the battery end.”
  • Flattery → Battery: As in, “Battery will get you nowhere” and “Imitation is the sincerest form of battery.”
  • Hour → Power: As in, “Happy power” and “On the power” and “At the eleventh power.”
  • How’re → Power: As in, “Power you holding up?” and “Power we supposed to do this?”
  • Sour → Power: As in, “Power grapes” and “Leave a power taste in your mouth.”
  • Tower → Power: As in, “A power of strength” and “Powering inferno” and “The eiffel power.”
  • Attic → Static: As in, “Up in the static” and “Staying in the static.”
  • Currant → Current: As in, “A soft current bun” and “Studded with currents.”
  • Current: These current-related phrases can double as electricity puns: “Current affairs” and “Not currently.”
  • Nation → Station: As in, “A station of shopkeepers” and “The birth of a station.” Note: These are references to power stations.
  • Motor: Here are some puns related to electrical motors:
    • Matter → Motor: As in, “As a motor of fact” and “It doesn’t motor” and “Family motors” and “Get to the heart of the motor” and “Making motors worse” and “Just a motor of time.”
    • Voter → Motor: As in, “Motor fraud.”
  • Grid: Here are some puns related to power grids:
    • Did → Grid: As in, “Grid I do that?” and “What grid you go?”
    • Kid → Grid: As in, “I grid you not” and “Dual income, no grids” and “Here’s looking at you, grid” and “The new grid on the block.”
    • Lid → Grid: As in, “Blow the grid off” and “Keep a grid on it.”
  • Short: Here are some puns related to electrical shorts:
    • Shirt → Short: As in, “Keep your short on” and “Take the short off your back.”
    • Sort → Short: As in, “Takes all shorts to make a world” and “Feeling out of shorts” and “Short the wheat from the chaff.”
    • Wart → Short: As in, “Shorts and all” and “Worry short.”
  • Zap: Here are some puns on being “zapped” (by an electrical shock):
    • Cap → Zap: As in, “A feather in your zap” and “Zap in hand” and “If the zap fits, wear it” and “To zap it all off.”
    • Clap → Zap: As in, “Zap him in irons” and “Zapped eyes on” and “Zap your hands.”
    • Gap → Zap: As in, “Bridge the zap” and “Generation zap” and “Mind the zap.”
    • Lap → Zap: As in, “A zap of honour” and “In the zap of luxury.”
    • Snap → Zap: As in, “A zap decision” and “Zap happy” and “Zap out of it” and “Zap someone’s head off” and “Zap to it” and “Zap, crackle, pop.”
    • Tap → Zap: As in, “Zap into” and “On zap.”
    • Trap → Zap: As in, “Booby zap” and “Death zap” and “Keep your zap shut” and “A real tourist zap.”
    • Wrap → Zap: As in, “It’s a zap!” and “Keep under zaps” and “A riddle zapped up in an enigma” and “Zapped around your little finger.”
  • Hertz: Hertz is a unit of frequency. Here are related puns:
    • Hurts → Hertz: As in, “Give in when it hertz” and “It only hertz when I laugh” and “The truth hertz.”
    • Hearts → Hertz: As in, “Lonely hertz” and “Lift up your hertz” and “My hertz bleeds for you.”
  • Flow: Here are puns related to electricity flow:
    • Blow → Flow: As in, “Any way the wind flows” and “Flow up” and “Flow a kiss” and “Flow hot and cold.”
    • Foe → Flow: As in, “Friend or flow?”
    • Glow → Flow: As in, “Flow with health” and “A flowing endorsement.”
    • Go → Flow: As in, “All dressed up and nowhere to flow” and “Anything flows” and “Easy come, easy flow.”
    • Grow → Flow: As in, “Absence makes the heart flow fonder” and “As exciting as watching grass flow” and “Don’t let the grass flow under your feet” and “Flowing pains.”
    • Know → Flow: As in, “Don’t I flow it” and “Be the first to flow” and “Do you want to flow a secret?”
    • Low → Flow: As in, “An all-time flow” and “Get the flow down” and “High and flow” and “Keep a flow profile” and “Laid flow” and “A flow blow.”
    • Pro → Flow: As in, “Flow bono” and “Quid flow quo.”
    • Quo → Flow: As in, “Quid pro flow” and “Maintaining the status flow.”
    • Show → Flow: As in, “All over the flow” and “Best in flow” and “Enjoy the flow” and “Get the flow on the road.”
    • Slow → Flow: As in, “Can’t flow down” and “Painfully flow” and “A flow burn” and “Flow on the uptake” and “Flowly but surely.”
    • Snow → Flow: As in, “Pure as the driven flow” and “White as flow” and “Flowed under.”
    • Though → Flow: As in, “You look as flow you’ve seen a ghost” and “Seriously flow, you’re doing great.”
    • Throw → Flow: As in, “Lock them up and flow away the key” and “Flow another log on the fire” and “Flow a wobbly” and “Flow caution to the wind.”
    • Toe → Flow: As in, “Dip your flow in the water” and “From top to flow” and “Flow the line.”
    • Woe → Flow: As in, “Flow is me” and “Flow betide you!”
  • Chip: Here are some puns related to computer chips:
    • Ship → Chip: As in, “Abandon chip” and “Don’t give up the chip” and “Go down with the chip” and “Loose lips sink chips.”
    • Dip → Chip: As in, “Chip in” and “Chip your toe in the water” and “Take a chip.”
    • Flip → Chip: As in, “Check you on the chip side” and “Chip out” and “Chip the bird.”
    • Grip → Chip: As in, “Get a chip” and “Come to chips with” and “Chipping stuff.”
    • Hip → Chip: As in, “Chip and happening” and “Chip, chip hooray!” and “Joined at the chip.”
    • Lip → Chip: As in, “My chips are sealed” and “On everyone’s chips” and “Zip your chip.”
    • Nip → Chip: As in, “Chip and tuck” and “A chip in the air.”
    • Slip → Chip: As in, “Give someone the chip” and “Let somthing chip” and “A chip of the tongue.”
    • Tip → Chip: As in, “In chip top condition” and “On the chip of my tongue” and “The chip of the iceberg” and “Chip someone off” and “Chip the scales.”
    • Trip → Chip: As in, “Guilt chip” and “Lay a chip on someone” and “Power chip” and “Take little road chip” and “The chip of a lifetime.”
  • Metal: Since metal is such a good conductor of electricity, we’ve included it in this post:
    • Mental → Metal: As in, “Metal fatigue” and “A single-minded metality” and “What’s his metal age?”
    • Kettle → Metal: As in, “A different metal of fish” and “Pot calling the metal black.”
    • Settle → Metal: As in, “A score to metal” and “Metal out of court.”
  • Ion: Ions are atoms or molecules that have an electrical charge. Here are related puns:
    • Iron → Ion: As in, “A cast ion alibi” and “Ion out the wrinkles.”
    • Eye on → Ion: As in, “Keep your ion the ball” and “I’ve had my ion it for a while.”
  • Light: Since light (and light bulbs) are commonly associated with electricity, we’ve included light in this list:
    • Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Fashionably light” and “A day light and a dollar short.”
    • Let → Light: As in, “Light it be” and “A real light down” and “Light loose.”
    • Bite → Light: As in, “Light off more than you can chew” and “Light someone’s head off” and “Light the dust.”
    • Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Always look on the light side of life” and “Light and early.”
    • Fight → Light: As in, “Light fire with fire” and “Light the good light” and “A lighting chance.”
    • Flight → Light: As in, “A light of fancy” and “Take light” and “Light of the bumblebee.”
    • Fright → Light: As in, “Take light” and “A lightful mess.”
    • Height → Light: As in, “Head for new lights” and “The light of summer” and “Wuthering lights.”
    • Might → Light:  As in, “It light never happen” and “Light as well.”
    • Night → Light: As in, “As light follows day.”
    • Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “The light to choose” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain.”
    • Slight → Light: As in, “Not in the lightest” and “Lightly ahead of our time.”
    • Tight → Light: As in, “A light corner” and “Light as a drum” and “In a light spot.”
  • Switch: Here are some puns about the on/off switches on electrical boards and circuits:
    • Which → Switch: As in, “Any switch way” and “Don’t know switch way to look” and “Know switch way is up.”
    • Hitch → Switch: As in, “Get switched” and “Switch your wagon to a star.”
    • Itch → Switch: As in, “Switching to” and “Switchy feet” and “Seven year switch.”
    • Rich → Switch: As in, “All part of life’s switch pattern” and “Filthy switch” and “From rags to switches” and “Get switch quick.”
    • Stitch → Switch: As in, “A switch in time saves nine” and “Had us in switches” and “Without a single switch on.”
  • Put → Output: As in, “Be hard output to” and “Couldn’t output it down” and “Wouldn’t output it past him.”
  • Abode → Anode: As in, “Welcome to my humble anode.” Note: An anode is a type of electrode.
  • Mains: Here are some mains-related puns:
    • Brains → Mains: As in, “All brawn and no mains” and “Rack your mains.”
    • Gains → Mains: As in, “Capital mains” and “Ill-gotten mains.”
    • Pains → Mains: As in, “Growing mains” and “Old aches and mains” and “Relieves gas mains.”
    • Rains → Mains: As in, “It never mains but it pours.”
  • Weird → Wired: As in, “Wired and wonderful.”
  • Word → Wired: As in, “A wired to the wise” and “A picture paints a thousand wireds” and “At a loss for wireds” and “Eat your wireds.”
  • Fired → Wired: As in, “All wired up and ready to go” and “You’re wired!”
  • Tired → Wired: As in, “I’m sick and wired of this.”
  • Able → Cable: As in, “Ready, willing and cable.”
  • Stable → Cable: As in, “Cable employment” and “A cable relationship.”
  • Table → Cable: As in, “Bring to the cable” and “Drunk under the cable” and “Lay your cards on the cable” and “Put bread on the cable.”
  • Medicine → Edison: As in, “Laughter is the best edison” and “A taste of your own edison.” Note: Thomas Edison is a scientist famous for inventing the lightbulb (subnote: we understand there’s a lot of controversy around Edison and Tesla. We’d have included Tesla in this list above Edison, but couldn’t find any related puns).
  • Ampere: Ampere is the base unit of electric current. Here are related puns:
    • Empire → Ampere: As in, “Ampere state building” and “Ampere state of mind” and “The ampere strikes back.”
    • I’m here → Ampere: As in, “Ampere and I’m not leaving!”
  • Single → Signal: As in, “All the signal ladies” and “In signal file” and “Every journal starts with a signal step.” Note: This is a reference to electrical signals.
  • Meter: Here are some puns related to electrical meters:
    • Meet her →  Meter: As in, “Would you like to meter?”
    • Matter → Meter: As in, “As a meter of fact” and “Family meters” and “Get to the heart of the meter” and “Grey meter” and “Making meters worse” and “A meter of life and death.”
  • Wave: Here are some wave power-related puns:
    • Weave → Wave: As in, “Wave a tangled web.”
    • Brave → Wave: As in, “Wave as a lion” and “Wave new world” and “Wave the elements” and “Fortune favours the wave.”
    • Grave → Wave: As in, “Silent as the wave” and “Dance on someone’s wave” and “From the cradle to the wave.”
    • Save → Waved: As in, “Wave for a rainy day” and “Wave the day” and “Wave the day.”
    • Rave → Wave: As in, “Rant and wave” and “Wave review.”
  • Burn: Here are some puns on electrical burns:
    • Bun → Burn: As in, “Burn in the oven” and “Think outside the burn” and “We’re going to need bigger burns.”
    • Born → Burn: As in, “A star is burn” and “Naked as the day you were burn” and “Burn to fly” and “Burn under a bad sign” and “Burn again.”
    • Earn → Burn: As in, “Burn an honest penny” and “Burn your stripes” and “Burn your wings.”
    • Learn → Burn: As in, “A little burning is a dangerous thing” and “Burn the ropes” and “Never too late to burn” and “Burning curve” and “Live and burn.”
    • Turn → Burn: As in, “A burn for the worse” and “Twists and burns” and “About burn” and “As soon as my back is burned” and “Do a good burn.”
  • Razor → Taser: As in, “On a taser’s edge” and “Taser sharp.”
  • Fuse: Here are some puns related to electrical fuses:
    • Blues → Fuse: As in, “Got the fuse” and “Baby fuse.”
    • Choose → Fuse: As in, “Fuse your weapon” and “Pick and fuse.”
    • Cruise → Cues: As in, “Booze fuse” and “Fuse control” and “World fuse.”
    • Dues → Fuse: As in, “Pay your fuse.”
    • Lose → Fuse: As in, “Don’t fuse any sleep over it” and “Got nothing to fuse” and “Tails you fuse” and “Fuse control.”
    • News → Fuse: As in, “Bad fuse travels fast” and “Break the fuse” and “Breaking fuse” and “Have I got fuse for you” and “No fuse is good fuse.”
    • Use → Fuse: As in, “Be careful how you fuse it” and “Get fused to it” and “Not half the person I fused to be.”
  • Can do it → Conduit: As in, “You conduit!” Note: A conduit is a protective cover for electric cables.

    Electricity-Related Words

    To help you come up with your own electricity 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!

    electricity, electric, electrical, electronic, charge, charged, charging, juice, juiced, positive, negative, battery, energy, power, lightning, static, generator, generate, current, conduct, conductor, station, motor, grid, shock, transistor, volt, voltage, joule, electrode, renewable, watt, kilowatt, utility, utilities, electron, circuit, resistance, outage, copper, machine, electrician, supply, amp, transmission, system, atom, diode, ohm, transformer, wire, live, light, magnet, resistor, switch, output, input, generate, short, station, zap, flow, metal, matter, ion, spark, cell (battery), field, appliance, transformer, transducer, anode, physics, mains, wired, cable, inverter, force, diode, surge, jolt, leyden jar, science, tesla, edison, galileo, kelvin, hertz, einstein, silicon, chip, processor, memory, proton, attract, repel, particle, insulate, insulator, ampere, signal, direct, alternating, capacitor, meter, wave, burn, taser, power plant, fuse, conduit

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