[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gallop.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / gallop

[← G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/G/)

# gallop

«gallop» in Mova's school dictionary: **to run very fast, the way a horse does, with all four…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (gallop, gallops, galloped, galloping); noun (a gallop, gallops)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To gallop is to run very fast, the way a horse does, with all four feet off the ground at one moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#m1)

2) A gallop is a horse's fastest way of running, or a ride at that speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#m2)

3) Gallop also means to do something very fast (informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, knights and cowboys gallop away. Horse speeds: walk, trot, canter, gallop. In PE, children «gallop» as a movement skill. Informally, «galloping prices» rise very fast.

### examples

- The horse galloped across the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#x1)
- We went for a gallop on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#x2)
- Children galloped around the hall like ponies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#x3)
- The knight galloped off to save the princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#x4)
- The days galloped by during the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#x5)
- At a gallop, a horse is very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/#x6)

### note

Past: galloped (one p — not «gallopped»). Order of speeds: walk, trot, canter, gallop.

### In the corpora

- [A galloping racehorse can reach about 70 kilometres an hour over a short distance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gallop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.