lope along/across/up etc• Dexter loped alongbehind, knowing things were not as simple as the woman detective liked to make out.• As I loped along, I felt absolutely no remorse.• He loped across in his shy, shambling way, flicking his eyes across to her.• Her shoulders are hunched, her head down as she lopes across the court.• Then he loped up the eastern side of the dell and the sound of firing moved away with him.• With such thoughts in my head and lithegrace in my movements, I loped up the grassyknoll to the court.• Stepping from the escalator he loped across the recorddepartment to find the other set of escalators.• He loped up the street in zigzags, swooping and making aeroplane noises.