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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lope mean? 

• LOPE (noun)
  The noun LOPE has 2 senses:

1. a slow pace of running

2. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop

  Familiarity information: LOPE used as a noun is rare.

• LOPE (verb)
  The verb LOPE has 1 sense:

1. run easily

  Familiarity information: LOPE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slow pace of running

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jog; lope; trot

Hypernyms ("lope" is a kind of...):

locomotion; travel (self-propelled movement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lope"):

dogtrot (a steady trot like that of a dog)

Derivation:

lope (run easily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

canter; lope

Hypernyms ("lope" is a kind of...):

gait (a horse's manner of moving)

Derivation:

lope (run easily)

• LOPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lope    ... he / she / it lopes   
Past simple: loped   
Past participle: loped   
-ing form: loping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run easily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "lope" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

lope (a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop)

lope (a slow pace of running)

 Context examples 

Lopes' team used data from NASA's Cassini mission, which operated between 2004 and 2017 and did more than 120 flybys of the Mercury-size moon.

(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)

As the huge brute loped along it dropped forward upon its fore-paws and brought its nose to the ground every twenty yards or so.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There he wandered for a week, seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never to tire.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a rifle close at hand, and a bullet smashed against a tree trunk several inches from One Eye's head, they hesitated no more, but went off on a long, swinging lope that put quick miles between them and the danger.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After some time of this the wolf started off at an easy lope in a manner that plainly showed he was going somewhere.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

At such times Buck did not attempt to stay him, but loped easily at his heels, satisfied with the way the game was played, lying down when the moose stood still, attacking him fiercely when he strove to eat or drink.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)