run up

Verb

• To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
• To approach (an event or point in time).
• To take to a destination or before an authority.
• To erect hastily, as a building.
• To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
• To bring a flag to the top of its flag pole.
• To string up; to hang.
• Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
• To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
• To accumulate (a debt).
• To thrust up, as anything long and slender.

Noun

• the action of running up; the area of the pitch used by the bowler to run up, the start of which he marks with a small marker