Gallop vs. Trot

Gallopnoun

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

Gallopnoun

An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.

Gallopverb

To run at a gallop.

Gallopverb

(intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.

Gallopverb

(transitive) To cause to gallop.

Gallopverb

(ambitransitive) 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.

Gallopverb

(intransitive) To run very fast.

Gallopverb

To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

Gallopverb

To progress rapidly through the body.

Gallopverb

To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.

Gallopverb

To ride a horse at a gallop.

Gallopverb

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

Gallopverb

To cause to gallop.

Gallopnoun

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.

Gallopnoun

a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously

Gallopverb

ride at a galloping pace;

Gallopverb

go at galloping speed;

Gallopverb

cause to move at full gallop;

Gallopnoun

the fastest pace of a horse or other quadruped, with all the feet off the ground together in each stride

Gallopnoun

a ride on a horse at a gallop

Gallopnoun

a very fast pace of running by a person

Gallopnoun

a track or ground where horses are exercised at a gallop

Gallopverb

(of a horse) go at the pace of a gallop

Gallopverb

make (a horse) gallop

Gallopverb

(of a person) run fast

Gallopverb

proceed at great speed

Gallopverb

(of a process or event) progress in a rapid and seemingly uncontrollable manner

Trotnoun

An ugly old woman, a hag.

Trotnoun

A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

Trotnoun

A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

Trotnoun

A brisk journey or progression.

Trotnoun

A toddler.

Trotnoun

(obsolete) A young animal.

Trotnoun

(dance) A moderately rapid dance.

Trotnoun

A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

Trotnoun

A run of luck or fortune.

Trotnoun

illegitimate study aid

Trotnoun

Diarrhoea.

Trotnoun

A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Trotverb

(intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

Trotverb

To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

Trotverb

(transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Trotverb

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.

Trotverb

Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.

Trotverb

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Trotnoun

The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.

Trotnoun

Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.

Trotnoun

One who trots; a child; a woman.

Trotnoun

a slow pace of running

Trotnoun

radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

Trotnoun

a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

Trotnoun

a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together

Trotverb

run at a moderately swift pace

Trotverb

ride at a trot

Trotverb

cause to trot;

Trot

The trot is a two-beat diagonal gait of the horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat. It has a wide variation in possible speeds, but averages about 13 kilometres per hour (8.1 mph).