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.
noun.
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.
noun.
A ride at a gallop; the act of riding an animal on the gallop.
noun.
A kind of dance. See galop.