noun
definition
The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
definition
An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
verb
definition
(of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
example
The horse galloped past the finishing line.
definition
To ride at a galloping pace.
definition
To cause to gallop.
example
to gallop a horse
definition
To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
definition
To run very fast.
definition
To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
definition
(of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.
Examples of gallop in a Sentence
As fast as ever the horses can gallop, so fast we'll go!
Nicholas put all his horses to a gallop and passed Zakhar.
Too bad I'm always at my worse when you gallop up, isn't it?
In full gallop they reach 40 mph, covering 25 feet in a single stride.
Give it them! he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and farther into the region where the army was already in action.
Gently disengaging himself, the prince spurred his horse and rode down the avenue at a gallop.
Rostov and Ilyin gave rein to their horses for a last race along the incline before reaching Bogucharovo, and Rostov, outstripping Ilyin, was the first to gallop into the village street.
It maintains a medium trot, but can break into an all out gallop when the need or the urge rises.
When disturbed they go off at a swift trot, which soon leaves all pursuit from a man on foot far behind; but if chased by a horseman they break into a gallop, which they can keep up for some distance.
The foolish woman thinks if I use her cell phone the dogs of law will trace the call and gallop a riding to her rescue.
This man rode toward Balashev at a gallop, his plumes flowing and his gems and gold lace glittering in the bright June sunshine.
A well-bred horse is required, clever at banks and blind ditches and able to gallop through the deep.
Forward going but not fast or slow, have controllable walk, trot, canter and gallop and have confidence giving jump.
The captive ox was then driven in a fast gallop to the camp of the buyer.
A horseman was seen to leave his tent one night at full gallop; he was the bearer of a letter to Osmgn Bey Hasan, the governor of Kine.
I rode horseback nearly every evening and once I rode five miles at a fast gallop.
The general bowed his head respectfully, and the monarch mounted and rode down the street at a gallop.
They are louder, continual, and may be accompanied by a click or gallop sound.
On examination of the heart rhythm using a stethoscope, infants with coarctation of the aorta usually have an abnormal "gallop" heart rhythm, and 50 percent of children also have heart murmurs.
Chassé - similar to a gentle horse gallop, step in front and then bring your other foot behind in a hop/glide stance.
A chassé (pronounced sha-say) looks like a graceful version of a horse gallop when you teach it to younger praise dancers.
It was a combination of hurdles, poles, barrels and open space - down which Alex was riding a horse at a gallop.
Her heart leaped into a gallop as she stared at Len.
Two of them rode side by side in front, at full gallop.
Ride across the windswept moors, or gallop along the beaches for an exhilarating experience.
Those 166 horses gallop along courtesy of a variable geometry turbocharger.
For pace and endurance no hunter approaches the English thoroughbred; and for a bold man who "means going," a steeplechase horse is often the best animal that could be obtained, for when he has become too slow to win races "between the flags," he can always gallop much faster, and usually lasts much longer, than animals who have not his advantage of blood.
But it must by no means be supposed that every man who goes out hunting desires to gallop at a great pace and to jump formidable obstacles, or indeed any obstacles at all.
Of games the young Moors play a great number; the principal one is a kind of football, more like that of Siam and Burma than that of England; wrestling and fencing are popular, but the chief amusement of the adult Moors is the "powder-play" (la ` ab el bariid), which consists of a type of military tournament, the horsemen going through lance and musket exercises or charging in review fashion, firing volleys as they gallop. Other recreations much in favour throughout Morocco are music, singing, jugglery, snake-charming and acrobatic performances.
At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in the smoke, Rostov hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where he was sent.
Gallop off to our Moscow estate, he said to the factotum who appeared at his call.
Gallop off to him at once and say I'll have his head off if everything is not here in a week.
With screams squeals, and waving of whips that caused even the shaft horses to gallop--the other sleighs followed.
That Frenchman, by his uniform an officer, was going at a gallop, crouching on his gray horse and urging it on with his saber.
Immediately on leaving the governor's, Nicholas hired post horses and, taking his squadron quartermaster with him, drove at a gallop to the landowner, fourteen miles away, who had the stud.
In front, at a weary gallop and using his leather whip, rode an officer, disheveled and drenched, whose trousers had worked up to above his knees.
In her absence Nicholas allowed himself to give his little daughter a gallop round the room.
Coyotes are creatures of slinking and stealthy habits, living in burrows in the plains, and hunting in packs at night, when they utter yapping cries and blood-curdling yells as they gallop. Hares ("jack-rabbits"), chipmunks or ground-squirrels, and mice form a large portion of their food; but coyotes also kill the fawns of deer and prongbuck, as well as sage-hens and other kinds of game-birds.
I know you think it your duty to gallop back to the army now that it is in danger.
It was only by the keener wind that met them and the jerks given by the side horses who pulled harder--ever increasing their gallop--that one noticed how fast the troyka was flying.
But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets.
Only when approaching Bagration did Rostov let his horse gallop again, and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general.
Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse.
Mind you gallop off to Korchevo without delay and carry out instructions!
The Austrian cavalry, on weak and emaciated horses, could not gallop at speed up the heavy slopes (2 1 ?), and the artillery of both Prussian wings practically broke every attempt of the infantry to form for attack.
The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.
Hardly had they reached the bottom of the hill before their pace instinctively changed to a gallop, which grew faster and faster as they drew nearer to our uhlans and the French dragoons who galloped after them.
He mounted it and rode at a gallop to one of the bridges over the Niemen, deafened continually by incessant and rapturous acclamations which he evidently endured only because it was impossible to forbid the soldiers to express their love of him by such shouting, but the shouting which accompanied him everywhere disturbed him and distracted him from the military cares that had occupied him from the time he joined the army.
From all sides adjutants continued to arrive at a gallop and as if by agreement all said the same thing.
He came at a gallop, wearing a small hat, a blue uniform open over a white vest, and the St. Andrew ribbon over his shoulder.