MEANING
To move with long, easy, bounding strides, as a person or animal crossing open ground.
Use it for
Give movement long, easy, bounding strides.Its stride-length and buoyancy make a movement beat more distinctive than “run.”
Words that belong together
- lope across a field
- lope along
- an easy lope
On the page
The dog loped across the wet field toward the gate.
Nearby words
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- lope
- Past tense
- loped
- Past participle
- loped
- Present participle
- loping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- lope
- Present continuous
- am/is/are loping
- Present perfect
- have/has loped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been loping
- Past
- loped
- Past continuous
- was/were loping
- Past perfect
- had loped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been loping
- Future
- will lope
- Future continuous
- will be loping
- Future perfect
- will have loped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been loping
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Suggests an effortless, springing rhythm with long strides; it is not simply a synonym for run.
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