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lope

(lōp)

intr.v. loped, lop·ing, lopes

To run or ride with a steady, easy gait.

A steady, easy gait.

[Middle English lopen, to leap, from Old Norse hlaupa.]

lop′er n.

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lope

(ləʊp)

1. (intr) (of a person) to move or run with a long swinging stride

2. (intr) (of four-legged animals) to run with a regular bounding movement

3. (Horse Training, Riding & Manège) to cause (a horse) to canter with a long easy stride or (of a horse) to canter in this manner

a long steady gait or stride

[C15: from Old Norse hlaupa to leap; compare Middle Dutch lopen to run]

ˈloper n

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lope

(loʊp)

v. loped, lop•ing,
n. v.i.

1. to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.

2. to canter leisurely with a long, easy stride, as a horse.

v.t.

3. to cause to lope.

4. a long, easy stride.

[1325–75; Middle English loupen, lopen < Old Norse hlaupa or Middle Dutch lopen; see leap]

lop′er, n.

lope

Past participle: loped
Gerund: loping

Imperative
lope
lope

Present
I lope
you lope
he/she/it lopes
we lope
you lope
they lope

Preterite
I loped
you loped
he/she/it loped
we loped
you loped
they loped

Present Continuous
I am loping
you are loping
he/she/it is loping
we are loping
you are loping
they are loping

Present Perfect
I have loped
you have loped
he/she/it has loped
we have loped
you have loped
they have loped

Past Continuous
I was loping
you were loping
he/she/it was loping
we were loping
you were loping
they were loping

Past Perfect
I had loped
you had loped
he/she/it had loped
we had loped
you had loped
they had loped

Future
I will lope
you will lope
he/she/it will lope
we will lope
you will lope
they will lope

Future Perfect
I will have loped
you will have loped
he/she/it will have loped
we will have loped
you will have loped
they will have loped

Future Continuous
I will be loping
you will be loping
he/she/it will be loping
we will be loping
you will be loping
they will be loping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been loping
you have been loping
he/she/it has been loping
we have been loping
you have been loping
they have been loping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been loping
you will have been loping
he/she/it will have been loping
we will have been loping
you will have been loping
they will have been loping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been loping
you had been loping
he/she/it had been loping
we had been loping
you had been loping
they had been loping

Conditional
I would lope
you would lope
he/she/it would lope
we would lope
you would lope
they would lope

Past Conditional
I would have loped
you would have loped
he/she/it would have loped
we would have loped
you would have loped
they would have loped

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Noun	1.	lope - a slow pace of running trot, jog locomotion, travel - self-propelled movement dogtrot - a steady trot like that of a dog
	2.	lope - a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop canter gait - a horse's manner of moving
Verb	1.	lope - run easily run - move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store"

lope

verb stride, spring, bound, gallop, canter, lollop He was loping across the sand towards me.

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lope

verb

To move with a steady easy gait faster than a walk but slower than a run:

jog, trot.

noun

A person's steady easy gait that is faster than a walk but slower than a run:

jog, trot.

Translations

يَجْري بِخُطُواتٍ واسِعَه

běžet dlouhými skokyklusat

galoppere

springen

harppoa

avancer en bondissant

fara á stökki, hlaupa léttilega

andatura a grandi passi correre a grandi falcate passo lungo procedere a gran passi

liuoksėti

aulekšotlēkšot

løpe med lange skritt

bežať dlhými skokmi

uzun adımlarla koşmak

大步慢跑

lope

[ləʊp] VI to lope along → andar a grandes zancadas, correr dando grandes zancadas
to lope off → alejarse con paso largo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lope

[ˈləʊp] vi → courir à grandes foulées souples

lope

vi → in großen Sätzen springen; (hare) → hoppeln; he loped along beside her → er lief mit großen Schritten neben ihr her; to lope off → davonspringen

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lope

[ləʊp] vi to lope along/off → procedere/partire a grandi balzi

lope

(ləup) verb

to run with long steps.

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"I say then," continued Sancho, "that in a village of Estremadura there was a goat-shepherd -that is to say, one who tended goats- which shepherd or goatherd, as my story goes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which shepherdess called Torralva was the daughter of a rich grazier, and this rich grazier-"

Torralva, when she found herself spurned by Lope, was immediately smitten with love for him, though she had never loved him before."

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After some time of this the wolf started off at an easy lope in a manner that plainly showed he was going somewhere.

There he wandered for a week, seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never to tire.

He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame.

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I read these and I read several comedies of Lope de Vega, and numbers of archaic dramas in Moratin's history, and I really got a fairish perspective of the Spanish drama, which has now almost wholly faded from my mind.

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The count and Simon galloped out of the wood and saw on their left a wolf which, softly swaying from side to side, was coming at a quiet lope farther to the left to the very place where they were standing.

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But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a rifle close at hand, and a bullet smashed against a tree trunk several inches from One Eye's head, they hesitated no more, but went off on a long, swinging lope that put quick miles between them and the danger.

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It had horns--ante- lope horns, I think--on its head.

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The horses broke into an easy lope. Chris rock on the outside, looking down into the great depths and pleasuring with his eyes in what he saw.

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Jamig thought that Lope would buy something but decided to run away when he spotted the latter holding a handgun.