as in to trot
to go at a pace faster than a walk
dawdles to school but gallops coming home
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Recent Examples of gallop
Derek Hinkey’s character, the Shoshone warrior Red Feather, is almost always frowning at white settlers, looking undeniably foreboding with his face slathered in black paint and galloping on horseback into battle.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Even if both animals seem to enjoy it, stop dogs from running around or alongside galloping horses.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Black horses bearing American and Saudi flags galloped along on the South Lawn.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
In the United States, the federal government delegates the regulation of the practice of medicine to the states, which aren’t racing nearly fast enough right now to catch up with the galloping med spa industry.
—Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Nov. 2025
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Apollo is still trotting on the spot.—
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Zosia and Carol’s globe-trotting romance took a dark turn in Big Sky, Montana, when Carol learned that Zosia and the rest of the Joined were nearing completion on another method to turn her into one of them.—
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As a result, the film sees Jackman and Hudson perform a collection of Diamond's beloved hits, which jogged Moore’s memory.—
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A couple years ago, another runner spent the better part of 12 months jogging every street in Manhattan, a 750-mile endeavor.—
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The woman running the daycare had attempted life-saving measures on the child before emergency services arrived, First Alert 4 reported.—
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Kaelon Black ran for two touchdowns to lead the Indiana running game.—
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“Gallop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallop. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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