trot
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1. trot - Noun
2. trot - Verb
Meaning
To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
One who trots; a child; a woman.
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She trotted the horse home
After a good start, India was in deep trouble after losing three wickets on the trot.
Description Two 6 months old Ibizan hounds Appearance The Ibizan Hound is an elegant and agile breed, with an athletic and attractive outline and a ground-covering springy trot.
; Collected gaits (trot and canter) : A shortening of stride in which the horse brings its hindquarters more underneath himself and carries more weight on his hind end.
Competition An upper-level dressage horse at the extended trot.
In 1872, Muybridge settled Stanford's question with a single photographic negative showing his Standardbred trotting horse Occident airborne at the trot.