lope
UK/ləʊp//loʊp/
lope verb: to travel an easy pace with long strides.
Verb
lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)
- To travel an easy pace with long strides.
- He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
- Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside.1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg
- To jump, leap.
- And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer...
- he that lopes on the ropes1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
Noun
lope (plural lopes)
- An easy pace with long strides.
- Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]1931, Home Geographic Monthly, volumes 1-2, page 45
- Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt.2022 October 25, Nghi Vo, Into the Riverlands, Tordotcom, →ISBN
lope meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
lope in Tamil
- துள்ளோட்டம்
lope in Malayalam
- bound, stride, run
- ചാടിച്ചാടിഓടുക, കാൽ നീട്ടിവച്ചോടുക, കാൽ നീട്ടിവച്ചു വെഗത്തിൽ നടക്കുക, തുള്ളത്തുള്ളി നടക്കുക, ചാടുക, ലംഘിക്കുക
lope in Kannada
- ದಾಪುಗಾಲು ಹಾಕಿ ಓಡು, ದೂರದೂರಕ್ಕೆ ನೆಗೆಯುತ್ತ ಓಡು, ದಾಪುಗಾಲಿಗ್ಗು, ನೆಗೆನೆಗೆದು ಓಡು
Examples of lope in a sentence
- And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 5:
- “And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
Forms of lope
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | lopes |
| present participle | loping |
| past participle | loped |
| past | loped |
| Noun | |
| plural | lopes |
Origin of lope
From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
Words formed from lope
Phrases with lope
Words that rhyme with lope
Questions about lope
- What does lope mean?
- Lope means to travel an easy pace with long strides.
- What is lope in Tamil?
- Lope in Tamil is துள்ளோட்டம். See Lope meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use lope in a sentence?
- And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]
- What part of speech is lope?
- Lope can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce lope?
- Lope is pronounced /ləʊp/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of lope?
- The past tense of lope is loped.
Words near lope in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lope (page history and authors); lope (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lope (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lope (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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