gallop

Word family

Related topics: Horses

1 [intransitiveI]DSH if a horse gallops, it moves very fast with all its feet leaving the ground together 〔马〕飞奔，疾驰 → canter, trot

A neighbour’s horse came galloping down the road, riderless.

一匹邻居家的马在路上飞奔，上面没人骑着。

a galloping horse

一匹奔驰的马

► see thesaurus at run →4 See picture of 见图 MOVEMENT

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]DSH if you gallop, you ride very fast on a horse or you make it go very fast 骑马奔驰；使（马）疾驰

gallop along/off/towards etc

I watched as Jan galloped away.

我看着简策马奔驰而去。

3 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]FAST/QUICK to move very quickly 快速移动，飞跑 SYN run

Ian came galloping down the stairs.

伊恩从楼上飞奔下来。

Examples from the Corpus

gallop• A thoroughbred can gallop a mile in about 90 seconds.• Isabella gallops around, winning battles, expelling Moors from strongholds, her appetites expanding by the week.• Meanwhile the colt galloped back and forth behind him, and the parakeets squawked.• A youngster identified with a mustang goes galloping down the street with a new vitality and personality.• He jumped on bareback, stuck to her like a leech and galloped her flat out through the crowd.• Ralph Lauren's Polo aftershave came galloping into the kitchen, followed shortly by a now fully clothed Lee.• As she felt her way forward, suddenly a knight on horseback galloped past her.• She galloped past the rabbit hutches, the ducks swaying towards the pond.• Golden Larch got up and galloped to the finish line.

gallop along/off/towards etc• I could see the ground far below me as we galloped along.• Horsemen gallop along a paved road, slowing to offer tourists a trek to the Sphinx.• Second, they saw foreign stock markets galloping along, delivering returns in the high double digits.• I saw three horses galloping off, dragging a fourth, which was dead.• In the end, I could only escape by galloping off, leaving him in full flow, and diving into a shop.• It galloped towards the boy in silence, swinging a thorn bush from its arm.• Bare chested and wet trousered, the job done, they swank before their audience then gallop off to Fair Hill.• And if the herd is threatened, they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together, touching each other for reassurance.