Definition of gallop
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Examples of gallop in a Sentence
The horse galloped toward us.
He mounted his horse and galloped off to sound the alarm.
She galloped her horse toward us.
I grabbed my books and galloped out the door.
The program gallops through early American history.
Recent Examples of gallop from the Web
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More: Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Justify has galloped at Churchill Downs in front of trainer Bob Baffert as the Triple Crown hopeful trains for the Belmont Stakes .
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May 3, 2018: Derby contender Audible galloped on the track at Churchill Downs in Louisville in prep for Kentucky Derby 144.
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And Justify gallops his way through the mud and fog into the Winner's Circle at the Preakness today in Baltimore.
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Determining when to gallop and when to breeze (horse-speak for a hard workout), the distance of those runs and their intensity, and when not to do them is the racing-horse trainer’s job.
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Sometimes after training, Lindley lingers by the horse farm near the training grounds at Sylvan Lake Park to watch the horses gallop around.
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How did the world’s greatest democracy and economy become a land of crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?
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The population has galloped in recent years to more than three million inhabitants and the city resembles a construction site.
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gallop Synonyms
Near Antonyms
amble, saunter, shamble, shuffle, stroll;
crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry;
Related Words
bound, canter, leap, lope, skip, spring;
barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bowl, breeze, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, course, foot (it), hasten, hie, hoof (it), hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, leg (it), pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, rush, rustle, shoot, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom;
Definition of gallop
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: a ride or run at a gallop
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: a stretch of land suitable for galloping horses
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: a rapid or hasty progression or pace
Examples of gallop in a Sentence
The horse was at full gallop.
He mounted his horse and took off at a gallop.
We went for a gallop through the countryside.
Recent Examples of gallop from the Web
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The golfers are not too far into their round when a father-and-son twosome on an adjoining fairway spots the distinctive Clinton white mane and begins a headlong gallop toward the group, only to be intercepted by a Secret Service agent.
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So on Friday morning, Gorder had her gallop on the muddy track.
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See also: Kentucky Derby winner Justify '100 percent' after Thursday gallopThursday marked the first time Justify returned to the track since his Kentucky Derby victory on Saturday.
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In this way, the race was a rerun of American Pharoah’s victory in 2015, a long gallop around the massive oval called Big Sandy, towing a field of lessers in his wake whose jockeys and trainers were left with an impossible conundrum.
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Trainer Bob Baffert was getting impatient Thursday morning waiting for the painfully slow tractors to finish conditioning the track so Justify could start his morning gallop.
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Justify turned in another strong gallop Friday in his final preparation for a Triple Crown bid in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes.
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Quip set off down the backstretch on his mile-long gallop, comfortably hitting each furlong in about 18 seconds, his normal galloping pace.
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At the film’s climax, a troop of white-robed Klansmen gallop to the rescue and eventually assist in preventing blacks from voting, restoring white rule in the South.
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GALLOP Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of gallop for English Language Learners
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of a horse or similar animal : to run very fast : to run at a gallop
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: to ride on a galloping horse
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: to make (a horse) gallop
gallop
Definition of gallop for English Language Learners
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: the way a horse or similar animal moves when it is running fast and all four of its feet leave the ground at the same time
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: a ride or run at a gallop
GALLOP Defined for Kids
Definition of gallop for Students
galloped;
galloping
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: to run or cause to run at a gallop
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: to ride on a galloping horse
Definition of gallop for Students
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: the fast springing way an animal with four feet and especially a horse runs when all four of its feet leave the ground at the same time
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: a ride or run on a galloping horse
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of gallop
: to progress or ride at a gallop
: to cause to gallop
medical Definition of gallop
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: a bounding gait of a quadruped;
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: a fast natural 3-beat gait of the horse
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: gallop rhythm
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