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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lope
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
▪ Dexter loped along behind, knowing things were not as simple as the woman detective liked to make out.
▪ As I loped along, I felt absolutely no remorse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He loped up the street in zigzags, swooping and making aeroplane noises.
▪ Her shoulders are hunched, her head down as she lopes across the court.
▪ His tribe join him, five pairs, in loping flight, then a quick tail-up dive into the damsons.
▪ It stood nearby, seeming to lope ahead of Laelaps' silent pursuit.
▪ Keeping the perimeter fence a few yards away on his left, Angel One loped silently along until he reached its north-western limit.
▪ She lopes between the lines of her teammates, slapping their outstretched hands.
▪ They'd lope out to a mesa two miles away and walk back.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lope

Lope \Lope\, imp. of Leap. [Obs.]

And, laughing, lope into a tree. Spenser.

Lope

Lope \Lope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loped; p. pr. & vb. n. Loping.] [See Leap.]

  1. To leap; to dance. [Prov. Eng.] ``He that lopes on the ropes.''
    --Middleton.

  2. To move with a leaping or bounding stride, as a horse.

  3. To run with an easy, bounding stride; -- of people.

Lope

Lope \Lope\, n.

  1. A leap; a long step. [Prov. Eng.]

  2. An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps.

    The mustang goes rollicking ahead, with the eternal lope, . . . a mixture of two or three gaits, as easy as the motions of a cradle.
    --T. B. Thorpe.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lope

"to run with long strides," early 15c.; earlier "to leap, jump, spring" (c.1300), from Old Norse hlaupa "to run, leap," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan (see leap (v.)). Related: Loped; loping. The noun meaning "a jump, a leap" is from late 14c.; sense of "long, bounding stride" is from 1809.

Wiktionary
lope

n. A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To jump, leap. 2 To travel an easy pace with long stride.

WordNet
lope
  1. n. a slow pace of running [syn: jog, trot]

  2. a smooth 3-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop [syn: canter]

  3. v. run easily

Wikipedia
Lõpe

Lõpe may refer to several places in Estonia:

  • Lõpe, Hiiu County, village in Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County
  • Lõpe, Ida-Viru County, village in Iisaku Parish, Ida-Viru County
  • Lõpe, Jõgeva County, village in Jõgeva Parish, Jõgeva County
  • Lõpe, Pärnu County, village in Koonga Parish, Pärnu County
Lope (film)

Lope is a drama film directed by Andrucha Waddington and released on September 3, 2010. The film is a co-production between Spain and Brazil, inspired in the youth of Lope de Vega.

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.