Lope

Quick meaning: Lope is a verb meaning To travel an easy pace with long strides.

Meaning

To travel an easy pace with long strides.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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?”

Word Forms

• lopes
• loping
• loped

Synonyms for lope

Depending on context, synonyms include trot, canter, jog.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jog, canter, trot, run, lollop, gallopade.

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