David Longstreth

I'm from the East Coast; I think about things dialectically sometimes - in other words, antagonistically. The rhythms that I think of are polyrhythmic, bouncy, loping. The way that I want to approach that is to get, like, a flat-footed Connecticut hard-core drummer to play these bouncy, loping polyrhythms.

American Musician

Lydia Millet

In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho.

American Novelist

Katie Ledecky

It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.

American Athlete

Pericles

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Greek Statesman

Used to describe an energetic and effortless way of moving that covers ground quickly.

Energetic Movement

Expresses a casual form of running, faster than a jog but not a full sprint.

Casual Speed

Not commonly used; may sound poetic or old-fashioned in contemporary contexts.

Irregular Usage

Highlights a person's or animal's graceful, easy motion when walking or running.

Graceful Motion

Appropriate in sports and physical activities to describe a certain running style.

Sporting Contexts

Useful in creative writing or narration to set a scene or describe movement vividly.

Narrative Descriptions

 clench their powerful muscles and shoot a sticky spray from their heads. After a minute, the anteater stops feeding, scratches the goo away, and lopes off. The nest sustained some damage, but the royals remain undisturbed, pumping out eggs into their reinforced fortress.

Coneheads, egg stacks...

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Lope

Energetic Movement

Casual Speed

Irregular Usage

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