apparently a primary verb (properly, threcho; compare G2359); which uses dremo drem'-o (the base of G1408) as alternate in certain tenses; to run or walk hastily (literally or figuratively):--have course, run.
to run
of persons in haste
of those who run in a race course
metaph.
of doctrine rapidly propagated
by a metaphor taken from runners in a race, to exert one's self, strive hard
to spend one's strength in performing or attaining something
word occurs in Greek writings denoting to incur extreme peril, which it requires the exertion of all one's effort to overcome