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Definitions for Galloping
[1] at a gallop; running or moving quickly.
[2] progressing rapidly to some conclusion, as a disease: galloping pneumonia.
[3] growing or spreading rapidly: galloping inflation.
[4] to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
[5] to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
[6] to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.
[7] to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
[8] 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.
[9] a run or ride at this gait.
[10] a rapid rate of going.
[11] a period of going rapidly.
[12] (prenominal) progressing at or as if at a gallop galloping consumption
[13] (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
[14] to ride (a horse, etc) at a gallop
[15] (intr) to move, read, talk, etc, rapidly; hurry
[16] the fast two-beat gait of horses and other quadrupeds
[17] an instance of galloping
Words related to Galloping
zoom, dart, dash, stride, lope, hurry, amble, trot, shoot, canter, rush, run, course, career, spring, jump, pace, leap, fly, hurdle
Words nearby Galloping
galloon, galloot, gallop, gallop rhythm, gallopade, galloping, galloping dominoes, gallotannic acid, gallous, gallovidian, galloway
Origin of Galloping
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 Galloping
un·gal·lop·ing , adjective
gal·lop·er , noun
out·gal·lop , verb (used with object)
Word origin for Galloping
C16: from Old French galoper, of uncertain origin
Synonyms for Galloping
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