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Definitions for Gallop

[1] 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.
[4] to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
[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.
[9] (intr) (of a horse or other quadruped) to run fast with a two-beat stride in which all four legs are off the ground at once
[10] to ride (a horse, etc) at a gallop
[11] (intr) to move, read, talk, etc, rapidly; hurry
[12] the fast two-beat gait of horses and other quadrupeds
[13] an instance of galloping

Words related to Gallop

zoom, dart, dash, stride, lope, hurry, amble, trot, shoot, canter, rush, run, course, career, spring, jump, pace, leap, fly, hurdle

Words nearby Gallop

galloglass, gallon, gallonage, galloon, galloot, gallop, gallop rhythm, gallopade, galloping, galloping dominoes, gallotannic acid

Origin of Gallop

1375–1425; late Middle English galopen (v.) < Old French galoper < Frankish *wala hlaupan to run well (see well1, leap) or, alternatively, verbal derivative of *walhlaup, equivalent to *wal battlefield (cognate with Old High German wal; see Valkyrie) + *hlaup run, course (derivative of the v.)

Other words from Gallop

gal·lop·er , noun
out·gal·lop , verb (used with object)

Word origin for Gallop

C16: from Old French galoper, of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Gallop

amble, dart, dash, hurry, lope, stride, trot, zoom, canter, career, course, fly, hasten, hurdle, jump, leap, pace, rack, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, sprint, tear along