lope
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ləʊp/
  • (America) IPA: /loʊp/
Verb

lope (lopes, present participle loping; past and past participle loped)

  1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.
    He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.
    • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786 ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034 ↗:
      And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
    • he that lopes on the ropes
Related terms Translations
  • French: courir en bondissant
  • Italian: procedere a lunghi salti
  • Russian: размашисто идти
  • Spanish: correr a paso largo
Noun

lope (plural lopes)

  1. An easy pace with long strides.
    • 1931, Home Geographic Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 45)
      Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]



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