gallop

gallop is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
2. intransitive verb. To ride a horse at a gallop.
3. intransitive verb. Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
4. transitive verb. To cause to gallop.
5. intransitive verb. A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
6. noun. a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously
7. verb. ride at a galloping pace

   "He was galloping down the road"

8. verb. cause to move at full gallop

   "Did you gallop the horse just now?"

   Synonyms: extend

9. verb. go at galloping speed

   "The horse was galloping along"

Synonyms

extend

Common word forms

gallops, galloped, galloper, galloping

Words from these letters

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