Dec 5, 2016 · The meaning of LOPE is an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter. How to use lope in a sentence.

A horse may overtake another at lope or gallop, and gallop in overtaking others or in escaping from predators.

LOPE definition: to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person. See examples of lope used in a sentence.

lope (ləʊp) vb 1. (intr) (of a person) to move or run with a long swinging stride 2. (intr) (of four-legged animals) to run with a regular bounding movement

Aug 28, 2025 · lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped) To travel an easy pace with long strides. quotations

lope /loʊp/ v., loped, lop•ing, n. v. [no object] to move or run with bounding steps or with a long, easy stride. n. [countable] the act of loping.

Before 1825, the meaning of lope was in the line of a leap or springy jump. This comes from the Old Norse word hlaupa, which sounds like its English meaning, "to leap."

lope meaning, definition, what is lope: to run easily with long steps: Learn more.

He was a lanky old man in overalls and he came across the lawn with a vigorous lope, grizzle-headed, a growth of stubbly beard on his chin.

The horses loped easily across/over the fields. He went loping up the hill. The outfielder loped after the ball. She ran with an easy lope. She ran with a long loping gait.