Lope
verb
To run or move with a long bounding stride.
The dog was lope across the field.
Often appears as...
- lope along
- lope off
noun
A long bounding stride.
He broke into a lope to reach the bus stop.
Often appears as...
- break into a lope
- maintain a lope
verb
To run or move with a long bounding stride.
The dog was lope across the field.
Often appears as...
- lope along
- lope off
noun
A long bounding stride.
He broke into a lope to reach the bus stop.
Often appears as...
- break into a lope
- maintain a lope
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Energetic Movement
Used to describe an energetic and effortless way of moving that covers ground quickly.
The horse would lope over the open fields with ease.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Speed
Expresses a casual form of running, faster than a jog but not a full sprint.
During the hike, she would occasionally lope to catch up with friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Irregular Usage
Not commonly used; may sound poetic or old-fashioned in contemporary contexts.
The child watched the deer lope across the meadow in the early morning.
Pro Tip 1/3Energetic Movement
Used to describe an energetic and effortless way of moving that covers ground quickly.
The horse would lope over the open fields with ease.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Speed
Expresses a casual form of running, faster than a jog but not a full sprint.
During the hike, she would occasionally lope to catch up with friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Irregular Usage
Not commonly used; may sound poetic or old-fashioned in contemporary contexts.
The child watched the deer lope across the meadow in the early morning.
Pro Tip 1/3Energetic Movement
Used to describe an energetic and effortless way of moving that covers ground quickly.
The horse would lope over the open fields with ease.
Pro Tip 2/3Casual Speed
Expresses a casual form of running, faster than a jog but not a full sprint.
During the hike, she would occasionally lope to catch up with friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Irregular Usage
Not commonly used; may sound poetic or old-fashioned in contemporary contexts.
The child watched the deer lope across the meadow in the early morning.
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Video examples
Coneheads, egg stacks...
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.
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Rites of Manhood:...
mark of the crocodile the meaning of the crocodile is ancestral for us to black ink look these cuts tell everyone to recognize son lope has initiated a man
Video examples
Coneheads, egg stacks...
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.
Video examples
Rites of Manhood:...
mark of the crocodile the meaning of the crocodile is ancestral for us to black ink look these cuts tell everyone to recognize son lope has initiated a man
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
David Longstreth
American Musician
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.
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Lydia Millet
American Novelist
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.
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Katie Ledecky
American Athlete
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.
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Pericles
Greek Statesman
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Quote examples
David Longstreth
American Musician
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.
Quote examples
Lydia Millet
American Novelist
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.
Quote examples
Katie Ledecky
American Athlete
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.
Quote examples
Pericles
Greek Statesman
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
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