trot

About 1.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
2. noun A brisk journey or progression.

   We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.

3. noun A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

   The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.

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5. noun A moderately rapid dance.
6. noun A young animal.
7. noun An ugly old woman, a hag.
8. noun A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

Similar words

clip lope crib jog pony gait gallop canter scuttle possum

Often followed by

and out to along of in or on off

Word family

Trot trots trotted trotting