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UK
/ɡˈæləp/
]
[ US /ˈɡæɫəp/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæɫəp/ ]
VERB
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ride at a galloping pace
He was galloping down the road -
go at galloping speed
The horse was galloping along -
cause to move at full gallop
Did you gallop the horse just now?
NOUN
- a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
How To Use gallop In A Sentence
- Horses Wednesday mainly galloped, jogged, or walked, but the first official workouts are most likely to occur on Thursday.
- We rode hardish (some people would have called it a hand-gallop) most of the way; up hill and down, across the rocky creeks, through thick timber. Robbery Under Arms
- The walk home was less of a gallop and quite honestly it was a relief to get into bed.
- Our problem since then is that we can't get them to the gallop because the roads are too icy to walk them on. Times, Sunday Times
- The new owners will be able to visit trainers' yards and to watch the horses work on the gallops.
- Nora tightly clutched the horse's reins as she galloped along the countryside.
- As inaccurate as the weapons were, especially on a galloping horse, he would only be hit by blind chance.
- The horseman gave a cry of astonishment and pleasure, and without a word wheeled his horse and galloped past back at headlong speed toward the castle. The Boy Knight
- They say the tide in the bay comes in faster than a galloping horse. Times, Sunday Times
- One day the boy we had looking after The Trickler fell in with a mob of sharps who told him we didn't know anything about training horses, and that what the horse really wanted was "a twicer" -- that is to say, a gallop twice round the course. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories