[ UK /ɡˈæləp/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæɫəp/ ]
VERB
  1. ride at a galloping pace
    He was galloping down the road
  2. go at galloping speed
    The horse was galloping along
  3. cause to move at full gallop
    Did you gallop the horse just now?
NOUN
  1. a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
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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
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