running commentary

English

Noun

running commentary (plural running commentaries)

1. A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:

     It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. […] You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”

   • 1974, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Ethological studies of child behaviour, page 250:

     Observations were made using a running commentary, which consisted mainly of a list of coded behaviour items.