The phrase "a sort of running" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an activity or state that resembles running but may not be exactly the same, often implying a more casual or less formal version of running.
Example: "After a long day at work, I often find myself engaging in a sort of running just to clear my mind and relieve stress."
Alternatives: "a kind of jogging" or "a type of sprinting".
He walked quickly, in a sort of running dance step.
A large body of political psychology research shows that people work up a sort of running tally as they learn about a candidate.
As Shelby Foote would later remark, many historians played down the Civil War west of the Mississippi River as a "sort of running skirmish that wobbled back-and-forth" without purpose.
Some other characters from "Hamlet" flit through as well, most interestingly Rosencrantz (Grace McLean) and Guildenstern (Preston Martin), who are known here simply as R and G and provide a sort of running commentary.
A visit there in the nineteen-fifties was a sort of running architectural seminar, where students could meet important architects like Paul Rudolph and explore ideas of all kinds.
A knight, just returned from the Crusades, meets black-robed Death on the beach and makes a bargain for time to do a good deed while the two of them play a sort of running game of chess.While the game is in progress, the knight and his squire go forth to find the land full of trembling people who darkly await the Judgment Day.
"There was a sort of run on tampons, fueled by media operations," Costas said, echoing the common government strategy of blaming such a crisis on the news media and on big business.
This approach, i.e. to calculate the PDD solely from the prescription data, is appropriate since we included only continuous prescriptions and we checked that every patient also received the analysed drug class, both before the study period—as a sort of run-in period to identify prevalent users and also after the 3-month period under study.
It is also easy to confuse a conviction with what is merely a good set-up for a joke.Through thousands of pages of newspaper columns, a novel, a couple of history books and a sort-of memoir runs a thread of ideas that make Mr Johnson an unlikely favourite for grassroots conservatives.
"Well, I do see a sort of line running through, with shifts and interruptions," he said.
When King Salman named bin Nayef crown prince, some Saudis speculated that the King envisioned him as a sort of caretaker, running the government until M.B.S. could be installed.
