gallop

IPA: gˈæɫʌp

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
(cardiology) An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
(music) A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
A surname.

(intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
(intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
(transitive) To cause to gallop.
(transitive, intransitive) To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
(intransitive) To run very fast.
(figurative, intransitive) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
(intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.

Examples of "gallop" in Sentences

It can be either and a gallop is a "no-no" in a harness race.
Charging at the gallop was the one thing the cavaliers did well from the start of the war, he remembered.
[Page 265] hard gallop, which is the best; you go like the wind over prairie and valley, up and down hill, all the same.
Most people didn't like getting too close to prisoner escorts, no, but leaving at a gallop was a rather extreme reaction.
In order to avoid that risk again, the jockey would have Spread the Word gallop for a mile or two before a race so as to exhaust it.
Another thing: cavalry can trot away from anything, and a gallop is a gait unbecoming a soldier, unless he is going toward the enemy.
The only other pace is a hard gallop, which is the best; you go like the wind over prairie and valley, up and down hill, all the same.
An ambitious and fearless gallop from the jungles of Africa via a shocking encounter on a Nigerian beach to the media offices of London and domesticity in leafy suburbia ...
It cheered one up in the storm, and the lilt of it kept time to the leaping kind of gallop which is the easiest way to run on snowshoes: "Bye, baby bunting; bye, baby bunting -- Hello!"
In charging, I had noticed how they had opened their ranks at the canter and then closed them at the gallop, which isn't easy; now they were doing the same thing as they retired towards the Heights, and I thought, these fellows ain't so slovenly as we thought.