rush for

rush for (someone or something)

1. To move toward someone or something in a hasty or frantic manner. It always amuses me how people rush for the gates to board a plane when we've all been assigned a seat already. Security guards rushed for the gunman as he fired a shot at the senator.
2. To attempt to accomplish, achieve, or obtain something in a hasty or frantic manner. You can tell they were rushing for a holiday release, because this product clearly didn't have enough time to have all the problems worked out. You keep rushing for kids and a house of your own, but I think you should take the time to enjoy this period of freedom in your life.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rush for something

to hurry to something. All the people rushed for the exits when the game was over. We rushed for the picnic tables as soon as they said that lunch was ready.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • rush for (someone or something)
  • rush to
  • rush to (someone, something, or some place)
  • lump (someone or something) (in) with (someone or something)
  • lump with
  • race up to
  • race up to (someone or something)
  • à la
  • la
  • skip out with
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Liverpool runners can register for a place at the city's first Color Obstacle Rush for PS26 until Thursday, June 25.
Rohit Khilnani, in his review of Rush for (http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-rush/20121026.htm) Rediff.com , said that filmmakers dealing with the hard-core journalism failed to get the facts right.
Holliday--author of the perennially best-selling The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience (1981) and the more recent Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California (1999)--has achieved a synthesis of all positions.
So, I'm hoping that CNN, which I think at least attempts to be unbiased, is after Rush for purely crass reasons: ratings.
who, as Public Enemy's business manager, negotiated with Rush for a multimillion dollar contract for the rap group.
Now strutting around Goodison as if he owned the place, Sammy Lee released Rush for a fourth - equalling the achievements of Fred Howe and Alex `Sandy' Young.