to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
2.
to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
3.
to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
–noun
5.
a fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.
6.
a run or ride at this gait.
7.
a rapid rate of going.
8.
a period of going rapidly.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME galopen (v.) < OF galoper < Frankish *wala hlaupan to run well (see well1, leap) or, alternatively, v. deriv. of *walhlaup, equiv. to *wal battlefield (c. OHG wal; see Valkyrie) + *hlaup run, course (deriv. of the v.)]
A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride.
A fast running motion of other quadrupeds.
A ride taken at a gallop.
A rapid pace: Events were proceeding at a gallop.
Medicine A disordered rhythm of the heart characterized by three or four distinct heart sounds in each cycle and resembling the sound of a galloping horse. Also called cantering rhythm, gallop rhythm.
v.
gal·loped, gal·lop·ing, gal·lops
v.
tr.
To cause to gallop.
To transport at or as if at a gallop: gallop the mail to the next station.
v.
intr.
To ride a horse at a gallop.
To move or progress swiftly: Summer was galloping by.
[From Middle English galopen, to go at a gallop, from Old French galoper, of Germanic origin; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
Gal"lop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Galloped; p. pr. & vb. n. Galloping.] [OE. galopen, F. galoper, of German origin; cf. assumed Goth. ga-hlaupan to run, OHG. giloufen, AS. gehle['a]pan to leap, dance, fr. root of E. leap, and a prefix; or cf. OFlem. walop a gallop. See Leap, and cf. 1st Wallop.]1. To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. But gallop lively down the western hill. --Donne. 2. To ride a horse at a gallop. 3. Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. --Locke.
Gal"lop\, n. [Cf. F. galop. See Gallop, v. i., and cf. Galop.] A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds. Hand gallop, a slow or gentle gallop.
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