Gallop

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride.
  • n. A fast running motion of other quadrupeds.
  • n. A ride taken at a gallop.
  • n. A rapid pace: Events were proceeding at a gallop.
  • n. Medicine A disordered rhythm of the heart characterized by three or four distinct heart sounds in each cycle and resembling the sound of a galloping horse. Also called cantering rhythm, gallop rhythm.
  • v. To cause to gallop.
  • v. To transport at or as if at a gallop: gallop the mail to the next station.
  • verb-intransitive. To ride a horse at a gallop.
  • verb-intransitive. To move or progress swiftly: Summer was galloping by.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The fastest gait of a horse.
  • n. A two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
  • v. To ride at a galloping pace
  • v. To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
  • v. To run very fast
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
  • verb-intransitive. To ride a horse at a gallop.
  • verb-intransitive. Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
  • v. To cause to gallop.
  • n. A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To move or run by leaps, as a horse; run with steady and more or less rapid springs. See the noun.
  • To ride a horse that is running; ride at a running pace.
  • To move very fast; scamper.
  • To cause to gallop: as, he galloped his horse all the way.
  • n. A leaping or springing gait or movement of horses (or other quadrupeds), in which the two fore feet are lifted from the ground in succession, and then the two hind feet in the same succession.
  • n. A ride at a gallop; the act of riding an animal on the gallop.
  • n. A kind of dance. See galop.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. ride at a galloping pace
  • v. cause to move at full gallop
  • n. a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
  • v. go at galloping speed
  • Verb Form
    galloped    galloping    gallopped    gallops   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ride horseback    ride    sit    gait    pace   
    Form
    galloped    galloping   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    canter    run    gait    tantivy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gallup    scallop   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    trot    canter    gait    stride    pace    ride    lope    tramp    leap    plunge