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trot

UK/tɹɒt/US/tɹɑt/

trot noun: a gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run. Also the alternative form of Trot.

Noun (1)

trot (plural trots)

  1. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
    • Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 133
    Synonyms:
    jog
  2. A brisk journey or progression.
    • We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
    • In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
  3. A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
    • The mare started at a walk before breaking into a trot.
    • Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14
  4. A toddler.
    • […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123
  5. A moderately rapid dance.
  6. (obsolete) A young animal.
  7. (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag.
    Synonyms:
    old woman
  8. (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (Australia, New Zealand) A run of luck or fortune.
    • He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
    • It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.1994, Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing, page 34
  10. (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
    Synonyms:
    horse
  11. (informal) Diarrhoea.
    • He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

Verb

trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)

  1. (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
    • I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
    • The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
  2. (intransitive) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
  4. (UK, archaic, slang, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.
    • A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.1927, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The Parliamentary Debates (Official Report), page 2221

Noun (2)

trot (uncountable)

  1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
    Synonyms:
    ppongjjak

Noun (3) capitalized: Trot

Trot (plural Trots)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A Trotskyite.
    • Loyal to a tee, he is still at a loss to understand the failure of the Frank Dobson candidacy in the London mayoral contest, and abandoned constituency meetings after a couple of events because they were "too dominated by Trots".2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian
    • We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street
    Synonyms:
    Trotskyite

Also used as

trot is also the alternative form of Trot.

trot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

trot in Hindi

ट्रॉट, ट्रोट

trot in Tamil

ட்ரொட், ட்ரோட்

trot in Marathi

ट्रॉट, ट्रोट

trot in Urdu

ٹراٹ, ٹروٹ, ٹراوٹ
More languagesFewer languages
trot in Bengali
ট্রট, ট্রোট
trot in Telugu
ట్రోట్, ట్రాట్
trot in Malayalam
ട്രോട്ട്, ട്രൊട്ട്
trot in Kannada
ಟ್ರೊಟ್, ಟ್ರೋಟ್
trot in Punjabi
ਟ੍ਰੋਟ, ਟਰੋਟ, ਟਰੌਟ
trot in Gujarati
ટ્રોટ
trot in Odia
ଟ୍ରଟ୍, ଟ୍ରାଟ୍, ଟ୍ରୋଟ
trot in Nepali
ट्रोट, ट्रट, ट्रोट गर्न
trot in Persian
یرتمه yortme, پویه puye, پوییدن puyidan, یرتمه رفتن yortme raftan

Examples of trot in a sentence

  • The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[…]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait.2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse...
  • To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position.2009, Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show, page 65:
  • Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.2004, John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture, 2nd edition, page 21:
  • I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv

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Synonyms of trot

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Forms of trot

Noun
pluraltrots
pluralTrots
alternative formtrot
Verb
third-person singular presenttrots
present participletrotting
past participletrotted
pasttrotted

Past tense of trot: trotted

Plural of trot: trots

Origin of trot

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.

Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.

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Questions about trot

What does trot mean?
Trot means a gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
What is trot in Hindi?
Trot in Hindi is ट्रॉट, ट्रोट. See Trot meaning in Hindi.
How do you use trot in a sentence?
The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[…]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait.
What part of speech is trot?
Trot can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce trot?
Trot is pronounced /tɹɑt/ (US).
What is the plural of trot?
The plural of trot is trots.

Words near trot in the dictionary

  1. Trost
  2. Trostianets
  3. Trostle
  4. Trostles
  5. Trosts
  6. trot
  7. trot off
  8. trot out
  9. trotcosies
  10. trotcosy
  11. trotcozy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trot (page history and authors); Trot (page history and authors); trot (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trot (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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