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loping

loping is the present participle and gerund of lope.

Meaning of lope

Verb

lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)

  1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.
    • He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) 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...

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Words formed from loping

Questions about loping

What is loping the present participle and gerund of?
Loping is the present participle and gerund of lope.

Words near loping in the dictionary

  1. lophyrotomins
  2. Lopiccolo
  3. Lopiccolos
  4. Lopik
  5. lopinavir
  6. loping
  7. Lopingian
  8. lopingly
  9. LoPinto
  10. LoPintos
  11. lopirazepam

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