Natural gait of a horse

Usage examples of lope.

I was gasping from the effort to keep up with Ralston Bogues, who was not precisely running, but was moving as fast as it was possible to go without breaking into a lope.

The caracal turned and loped off then stopped to glance back as if he waited for something--something that he wanted her to do.

She dragged Skeen and Rostico Burn back into the shelter, came loping out a big cat, the combox in her mouth, and raced off into the darkness.

Permanent Copula loping toward him, its twin heads and arms bobbing, one half of the creature serene, the other half straining to realize every pleasure Alien City had to offer.

She knew she had not left Father Efrain and Carmen de Sosa behind, and now there was no Diego with his sword to send them loping into the bushes.

Abbie climbed out of the truck after MacCrea, then waited as Dobie loped across the farmyard to meet them.

The ekka followed, the pony loping to keep up, and if Jannath did not grow seasick from the pitching it must have been because he had been a sailor in a recent incarnation.

They were the rowdy young males who had loped off not days before on a foraging trip to another part of the forest clump.

Pierre hugged the shadows as the Gangrel he had been following loped off into the night.

Force compulsion so strong that even though Ganner knew what it was, it continued to drive his legs in a staggering lope away from the chamber.

Like runaway construction cranes, giraffe clans loped along above great herds of gemsbok and blue wildebeest.

I loped back down to the development sign and turned left, hoping that New Jersey Bell would be sweet and have a phone-booth stuck in some hayfield close by.

Ignoring everybody, he loped through the scene without so much as an hola, veered into the bar door, banged it open, and plunged inside.

As the next wave picked him up and slid him forward again, Huerta rose to a low crouch and loped forward.

He loped off to the keyboardist and whispered in his ear, and then the keyboardist nodded and conferred with the two teenage guitarists.