Rum-running
（重定向自Rumrunning）
![A liquor raid in 1925, in Elk Lake, Ontario](/Images/godic/202502/08/Raid_at_elk_lake3435.jpg")
![Rum runner schooner Kirk and Sweeney with contraband stacked on deck](/Images/godic/202502/08/Rumrunner_cargo3435.jpg")
![Rum-runner William S. McCoy, Florida area from 1900 to 1920.](/Images/godic/202502/08/McCoy3435.jpg")
![U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Seneca](/Images/godic/202502/08/CutterSeneca3436.jpg")
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. Smuggling is usually done to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land.