- to ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed: They galloped off to meet their friends.
- to run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.
- to go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.
- to cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.
- a fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.
- a run or ride at this gait.
- a rapid rate of going.
- a period of going rapidly.
- (of a horse or other quadruped) to run fast with a two-beat stride in which all four legs are off the ground at once
- to ride (a horse, etc) at a gallop
- to move, read, talk, etc, rapidly; hurry
- the fast two-beat gait of horses and other quadrupeds
- an instance of galloping
