Here are different ways for a character to run, culled from various places:

run:

barrel, bolt, break away, breeze, bullet, bustle, chase, clip, dart, dash, dig, double-time, drive, escape, flee, flit, fly, hasten, hotfoot, hurry, hustle, jog, lope, peg, pelt, plunge, race, ram, roll, rush, scamper, scarper, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shin, skedaddle, skelp, skip, skirr, skitter, speed, sprint, spurt, streak, surge, thrust, trot, vanish, whiz, zip

Any others?