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Loping

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.

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loping

vb. (present participle of lope English)

Usage examples of "loping".

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.

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.

The Master-at-arms rode beside her, with the dwarf mounted pillion behind him, and the Lycanthrope loping on ahead.

If the young middy loping our way saw it, he could execute Eddie on the spot.

I stand and look after her for a minute, pursuing her with my eyes as I would with my feet and then, realizing that I am very late for therapy and things will be even worse if I do not appear shortly, I break into a clumsy, loping run, heading toward the appropriate room, thoughts of Nala and even the escape momentarily abolished.

Then it emerged from the shadows a block behind him, loping unevenly with long strides that carried it forward with a rush, its matted fur shining oilily under a street lamp.

Ribaul had a high loping walk and Pidgeon had trouble staying up with him.

A stocky figure appeared through the archway, loping raggedly on mismatched legs, torch in hand.

He had come down through a little gully that led into the flat and was loping his pony through the deep saccatone grass toward the cabin.

A pack of yags, fire elementals that bounded in a motion between loping and burning.

They were loping down a back alley, Hoag leading, still in his yukata, but now wearing his boots, Babcott close behind, the Sergeant and ten soldiers following, all of them armed.

Shanghai Police, legs strapped into a pedomotive, was coming down the street with the tremendous loping strides afforded by such devices, escorted by a couple of power-skating Ashantis.

The guy was staring in horror at the Prowler, which was now loping along the train platform toward them.