Lope

/ləʊp/ · verb

Meaning

To travel an easy pace with long strides..

Definitions by Sense

1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
3. An easy pace with long strides.

Example Sentences

He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.

Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside.

And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]

“And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”

1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy he that lopes on the ropes

And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver

Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]

Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt.

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• lopes
• loping
• loped

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