Lope

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  • intransitive verb. To run or ride with a steady, easy gait.
  • noun. A steady, easy gait.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To leap.
  • To move or run with a long step, as a dog; canter leisurely with a rather long, easy stride, as a horse.
  • To cause to lope in going or running.
  • noun. A leap.
  • noun. A striding movement; a run made with long steps; especially, a leisurely canter with a rather long, easy stride, as of a horse.
  • noun. A Middle English preterit and past participle of leap.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imperative. of leap.
  • intransitive verb. To leap; to dance.
  • intransitive verb. To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse.
  • intransitive verb. To run with an easy, bounding stride; -- of people.
  • noun. A leap; a long step.
  • noun. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To jump, leap.
  • verb. To travel an easy pace with long strides.
  • noun. A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a slow pace of running
  • noun. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
  • verb. run easily
  • Word Usage
    "‘Tue-tête means Pénélope is singing as LOUD as she can,’ she explains in a decidedly schoolmistressy voice, cranking up her internal volume dial to better illustrate her point and eliciting a groan from The Boy, who is sleeping in the bedroom, a few metres away."
    Form
    loped  loping  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gait  run  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hope  Nope  Pope  bronchoscope  cope  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    canter  gait  gallop  pirouette  stride  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    leap  
    verb-form
    loped  lopes  loping