History Main / GirlyRun

* Female Inklings in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' have the "arms slightly down and out at the sides" variation when in the plaza. Averted in-game, though, where gender is [[PurelyAestheticGender purely aesthetic]].

* Shows up frequently in Creator/{{Bethesda}} [=RPGs=] such as ''VideoGame/{{Oblivion}}'', ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. The female characters have a very [[https://www.zupimages.net/up/20/28/ryqi.gif noticeably]] [[http://i.imgur.com/0oPE8az.gif girly run.]]

* If you put your player character in a dress or skirt in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'', they do this. Yes, even if [[WholesomeCrossdresser you're using a male character that you put a dress on]].
* Every female wrestler does in ''VIdeoGame/WWFNoMercy''.

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* Captain Jack's run was inspired by the way Tuco ran through the cemetery in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93s5nKZ_iVs This video compares them. (Unfortunately, it's private.)]] Tuco's run differed in that he didn't flail his arms, he tended to keep them down and slightly out from his sides. This is amusingly dissonant to his manic, larger-than-life personality.

** Again in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' as Nanoha reminisces about the importance of meeting Fate and how much she means to her. After a brief stop to catch her breath and continue, Nanoha sees Fate is really there and we get to see a double girly run as Fate also runs to Nanoha's encounter. After six months apart, they end their run in an [[BigDamnReunion emotional hug]].

** Again in [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 2nd A's]] as Nanoha reminisces about the importance of meeting Fate and how much she means to her. After a brief stop to catch her breath and continue, Nanoha sees Fate is really there and we get to see a double girly run as Fate also runs to Nanoha's encounter. After six months apart they end their run in an [[BigDamnReunion emotional hug]].

* During the ending credits of ''Manga/BlueDrop'' the silhouettes of Hagino and Mari are shown running in this manner. This is a bit weird, since in the series they run normally and generally don't behave overly girly.

* For some reason, Nanoha routinely did this in the first season of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. Fortunately for anyone taking her seriously she could and did fly more often than not when in costume. She later grows out of it as an adult, but she is succeeded by her {{Expy}} Caro who is even [[PinkMeansFeminine pinker]] than Nanoha.

* Cecilia in ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' runs like this, most noticable in the ending.

* In ''Film/StandByMe'' it was used as an acting technique. Creator/WilWheaton was required by the plot to lose a foot race to River Phoenix, but discovered that he couldn't do it naturally. He found that by flailing his limbs about, it slowed him down enough to lose but at the same time he looked like he was actually trying harder to win.

* Likely due to way it was filmed, a young Clark Kent in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' has a [[https://youtu.be/2AmY_TaUh8M?t=109 very girly run]] when he races a train.

* Probably not intentional, but Avon from ''Series/BlakesSeven'' gets a bit... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWv2WWNZzhw flaily]] when he runs. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he's a computer technician. The same excuse can be used for Blake, an engineer. [[AxCrazy Travis]] on the other hand, is occasionally shown virtually skipping due to the small size of the sets, despite his AxCrazy tough guy character.

* On one episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', while investigating a suspicious businesswoman, the team has reason to believe her rather... ''[[CampGay effeminate]]'' assistant is hiding important information for her, and chase him down in the parking lot. The chase scene involves the terrified assistant running like a girl in a B horror movie from [=DiNozzo=], until Gibbs cuts them off and catches him. When Gibbs questions his inability to end the chase, a breathless [=DiNozzo=] can only defend himself by saying that the assistant's running style was "surprisingly efficient."

** The ''Smash Ultimate'' version of Zelda has her own more down to earth version of the [[https://www.deviantart.com/allthestawf/art/Smash-Ultimate-Zelda-Girly-Run-848631135 girly run]]. She even runs faster than her two predecessors.

* Namine from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. Xion and Aqua have normal looking runs, which might have something to do with the fact that they're playable characters. Kairi has a normal looking run for most of ''Kingdom Hearts II'', but when she gets a girly run with Namine in one scene, let's just say the animators didn't do things by halves.
* ''All'' living characters in the ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' games run slowly and in the girliest, most delicate manner possible. Even the males.[[note]]Though detective Kirishima from ''IV'' jogs strangely stiffly, like he's been tied up.[[/note]] Special mention goes to Miku Hinasaki, the ''de facto'' PlayerCharacter from the first game, who becomes even ''girlier'' in the third one, complete with flailing arm. The "unreasonably slow" part is subverted in ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', where if the player characters are outdoors where there's actual room to run around like a street or forest trail, they will ''book it''.

* Hinako, fom ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' runs almost exactly as it's mentioned in the trope description.

* In ''VideoGame/NeoSteam'', female characters that aren't of the Pom race tend to do the lower body half of this when they're not carrying a two handed weapon. It's somewhat jarring out of elves and lyell (catgirls), since you would associate such races with gracefulness.

* Jennifer from ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' runs like this. She also fights in extremely stereotypical girly manner - she covers her eyes while she stabs the enemies!

* In the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game series, Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit and Rouge the Bat will start off running like this, though they'll stop once they reach full speed. Hilariously, in ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 2]]'', Amy will Girly ''Spin Dash''.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'''s ninja girl Ibuki [[https://www.deviantart.com/allthestawf/art/SFV-Ibuki-Girly-Run-848463169 does this]] in Shadow Falls. In game she has a more practical run.

* Something of a weird inversion in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when Stewie states he hates Meg's "manly walk". Played straight however, by Peter when he thought Dr. Hartman sexually violated him (the doc really was trying to give Peter a prostate exam).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Hank and Dean each has a very... ''peculiar'' running style, as seen during the opening credits. The opening credits of episode 2x01 shows that their father has a third one.

* You have a good chance of breaking into a girly run everytime you try to run down some stairs (holding your limbs close to your body makes it less likely to lose balance).

* ''Film/YorTheHunterFromTheFuture''. The manliness of the handsome shirtless FuturePrimitive is rather impaired by Yor doing this in his introductory scene, as he jogs around the stone towers of Cappadocia, Turkey. As ''Something Awful'' put it:

* Probably not intentional, but Avon from ''Series/BlakesSeven'' gets a bit... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWv2WWNZzhw flaily]] when he runs. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he's a computer technician. The same excuse can be used for Blake, an engineer. [[AxCrazy Bodyguard Travis]] on the other hand, is occasionally shown virtually skipping due to the small size of the sets, despite his AxCrazy tough guy character.

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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'', Shifty Dingo is shown skipping like this in the Mother's Day episode. About the only masculine things about Shifty are the fact he owns a skateboard and red baseball cap.

* Parodied and lampshaded in the third ''Film/AustinPowers'' movie where Scott Evil, who's previously been just an everyday teenager is suddenly revealed to run in an exceedingly girly fashion. He's also sobbing madly. The below quote, by Dr. Evil, is said immediately after that. What makes this even funnier, is that not even ten minutes later, after formulating a plan [[spoiler:with his brother, Austin Powers]], he can be seen [[HypocriticalHumor running like a girl]].

* ''Film/{{Friday}}'', Red has [[https://media3.giphy.com/media/l41lPVMmb30JO72WA/giphy.gif a very unmanly run]].

* Creator/StevenSeagal especially in ''Film/HardToKill'' has the girliest run ever used by an action movie star. He seems to lose control of his arm while sprinting. This is a problem for Seagal in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkskuSXqUD0 all his films]].

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': The famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foNKPz6iiqM Peggy Bundy Run]]. Any time Peg has to move quickly, it can be best described as a T-Rex in drag. According to Creator/KateySagal, it was the only way she ''could'' walk in the heels she always wore in character.

* ''All'' living characters in the ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' games run slowly and in the girliest, most delicate manner possible. Even the males[[note]]though detective Kirishima from ''IV'' jogs strangely stiffly, like he's been tied up[[/note]]. Special mention goes to Miku Hinasaki, the ''de facto'' PlayerCharacter from the first game, who becomes even ''girlier'' in the third one, complete with flailing arm. The "unreasonably slow" part is subverted in ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', where if the player characters are outdoors where there's actual room to run around like a street or forest trail, they will ''book it''.
* The main character of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' even though it's a guy who kills 50 foot stone monsters by stabbing them all for {{love|MakesYouCrazy}}. Although he is holding stuff.

* Shows up frequently in Creator/{{Bethesda}} [=RPGs=] such as ''VideoGame/{{Oblivion}}'', ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', ''VideoGame/{{Skyrim}}'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. The female characters have a very [[https://www.zupimages.net/up/20/28/ryqi.gif noticeably]] [[http://i.imgur.com/0oPE8az.gif girly run]].

* Lilith's walking animation in ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is more or less a hopping-on-tiptoes variation of this, reflecting her more playful and childish nature compared to [[HornyDevils Morrigan]]. She does it both [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skipfor.gif forward]] and [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skip.gif backwards]].

* [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Adrian Sutil]] pulled this trope off in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkRgUcP_rM 2008 Canadian Grand Prix]].

* ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' has [[ButtMonkey Furuichi]] ([[RunningGag as well as several other characters as of late]]) [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/49241/beelzebub_ch127_by_red-hawk-scans/17 running like a bitch]].

* J. Geil from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' runs in this [[spoiler:as he tries to flee from Kakyoin and Polnareff before being killed by them]]. Mariah [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MiniatureTheseAfricanaugurbuzzard-small.gif runs like this too]].

* Female characters in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' with the exception of Android 18, run like this [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/38300000/Maron-dragon-ball-z-38395274-500-374.gif e.g Maron]].
* Madoka Kaname in Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, especially in the opening.

* ''All'' living characters in the ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' games run slowly and in the girliest, most delicate manner possible. Even the males[[note]]though detective Kirishima from ''IV'' jogs strangely stiffly, like he's been tied up[[/note]]. Special mention goes to Miku Hinasaki, the ''de facto'' PlayerCharacter from the first game, who becomes even ''girlier'' in the third one, complete with flailing arm. Tue "unreasonably slow" part is subverted in ''VideoGame/FatalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', where if the player characters are outdoors where there's actual room to run around like a street or forest trail, they will ''book it''.

* ''All'' living characters in the ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' games run slowly and in the girliest, most delicate manner possible. Even the males[[note]]though detective Kirishima from ''IV'' jogs strangely stiffly, like he's been tied up[[/note]]. Special mention goes to Miku Hinasaki, the ''de facto'' PlayerCharacter from the first game, who becomes even ''girlier'' in the third one, complete with flailing arm. Tue "unreasonably slow" part is subverted in ''VideoGame/FratalFrameMaidenOfBlackWater'', where if the player characters are outdoors where there's actual room to run around like a street or forest trail, they will ''book it''.

* ''All'' living characters in the ''VideoGame/FatalFrame'' games run slowly and in the girliest, most delicate manner possible. Even the males[[note]]though detective Kirishima from ''IV'' jogs strangely stiffly, like he's been tied up[[/note]]. Special mention goes to Miku Hinasaki, the ''de facto'' PlayerCharacter from the first game, who becomes even ''girlier'' in the third one, complete with flailing arm. Subverted in ''V'', where if the player characters are outsdoors where there's actual room to run around, they will ''book it''.

* Lilith's walking animation in''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is more or less a hopping-on-tiptoes variation of this, reflecting her more playful and childish nature compared to [[HornyDevils Morrigan]]. She does it both [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skipfor.gif forward]] and [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skip.gif backwards]].

* Lilith's walking animation in''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is more or less a hopping-on-tiptoes variation of this, reflecting her more playful and childish nature compared to [[HornyDevils Morrigan]]. She does it both [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skipfor.gif forward]] and [[backwards https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skip.gif]].

* Dutch pop singer José Hoebee runs like this in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BG4jxcpEQ music video]] of Peggy March's "I Will Follow Him".

* Dutch pop singer José Hoebee runs like this in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BG4jxcpEQ music video]] of Peggy March's "I Will Follow Him".

* Probably not intentional, but Avon from ''Series/BlakesSeven'' gets a bit... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWv2WWNZzhw flaily]] when he runs.{{Justified|Trope}} in that he's a computer technician. The same excuse can be used for Blake, an engineer. [[AxCrazy Bodyguard Travis]] on the other hand, is occasionally shown virtually skipping due to the small size of the sets, despite his AxCrazy tough guy character.