diff --git a/dvc/commands/experiments/run.py b/dvc/commands/experiments/run.py
index dd8c90cd3e..090cae3134 100644
--- a/dvc/commands/experiments/run.py
+++ b/dvc/commands/experiments/run.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 
 def add_parser(experiments_subparsers, parent_parser):
-    EXPERIMENTS_RUN_HELP = "Run or resume an experiment."
+    EXPERIMENTS_RUN_HELP = "Run an experiment."
     experiments_run_parser = experiments_subparsers.add_parser(
         "run",
         parents=[parent_parser],
diff --git a/dvc/repo/experiments/run.py b/dvc/repo/experiments/run.py
index d3c7149479..1dd3c42b89 100644
--- a/dvc/repo/experiments/run.py
+++ b/dvc/repo/experiments/run.py
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ def run(  # noqa: C901, PLR0912
     Returns a dict mapping new experiment SHAs to the results
     of `repro` for that experiment.
     """
+    if kwargs.get("dry"):
+        tmp_dir = True
+
     if run_all:
         return repo.experiments.reproduce_celery(jobs=jobs)
 
diff --git a/tests/func/experiments/test_experiments.py b/tests/func/experiments/test_experiments.py
index 1c487306c9..29259ac3e2 100644
--- a/tests/func/experiments/test_experiments.py
+++ b/tests/func/experiments/test_experiments.py
@@ -676,10 +676,12 @@ def test_experiment_unchanged(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, exp_stage):
     assert len(dvc.experiments.ls()[scm.get_rev()]) == 2
 
 
-def test_experiment_run_dry(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, exp_stage):
+def test_experiment_run_dry(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, exp_stage, mocker):
+    repro = mocker.spy(dvc.experiments, "reproduce_one")
     dvc.experiments.run(exp_stage.addressing, dry=True)
 
     assert len(dvc.experiments.ls()["master"]) == 0
+    assert repro.call_args.kwargs["tmp_dir"] is True
 
 
 def test_clean(tmp_dir, scm, dvc, mocker):