gallop
noun/ˈɡæləp/
/ˈɡæləp/
- [singular] the fastest speed at which a horse can run, with a stage in which all four feet are off the ground together
- at a gallop He rode off at a gallop.
- My horse suddenly broke into a gallop.
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: other sportsc1, Animalsc1- riders coming at full gallop
- Diane urged her horse into a gallop.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fast
- good
- steady
- …
- break into
- at a gallop
- into a gallop
- gallop through
- …
- at full gallop
- [countable] a ride on a horse at its fastest speed
- to go for a gallop
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- fast
- good
- steady
- …
- break into
- at a gallop
- into a gallop
- gallop through
- …
- at full gallop
- [singular] an unusually fast speed; the act of doing something at an unusually fast speed
- at a gallop She always lives life at a gallop.
- The programme starts with a gallop through the history of the railway.
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Old French galop (noun), galoper, variants of Old Northern French walop, waloper, perhaps from a Germanic phrase meaning ‘run well’, from the bases of well ‘good’ and leap.
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