running commentary
noun1
A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
- 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.”1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:
- Observations were made using a running commentary, which consisted mainly of a list of coded behaviour items.1974, Nicholas Blurton Jones, Ethological studies of child behaviour, page 250: