lope

Bounding around the stage shirtless with a disconcerting lope that suggests something’s off with his hip, he simultaneously owns his ancientness and defies it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023

Jones’s turbulent drive on Farrell’s “13 Avenue B” and way-behind-the-beat lope during “On the Trail” demonstrate why many consider him jazz percussion’s all-time heavyweight champ.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2022

Despite the double electrified fence, the scene looks almost primal as the apes lope like shadows through the lush, golden grass.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018

I watched him lope down the hill to catch up with his father.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

In a wordless two-page spread, a dog lopes solemnly toward the pickle, trailed by a mournful earthworm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The NWS has warned that severe weather could return later this week as a storm lopes into the Great Lakes region over Friday and Saturday.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024

What endures from those days is the sense of motion: A creature lopes through incongruous environments, often entering a spaceship that descends, hovers and ascends again.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022

Once he’s gone — back with the grown-ups among the rusty waves of Richard Serra’s “Wake” — the rabbit lopes back out and resumes grazing, the picture of dignified ease.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2022

Our teammates on the bench jump to their feet, cheering as my cousin lopes easily around the bases.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

But by the time Holiday had sprinted to the basket, Wembanyama had loped over, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Then we waited a few more minutes while our kids loped back and forth between the hoops, not really communicating, before taking our charges home.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2022

The risk did not pay off - Russell ran wide at the second corner on his first attempt, put a wheel on the painted pit-exit line and loped into a slow spin.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2022

Toward the end of the movement, Taylor loped to the rear of the stage, taking his ground-scraping lows with him in a slow, subdued huff.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022

He almost loped, not after the six-foot-three-inch bound of a Stew Boswell, but like a man who understood the true stamp and limit of his gait.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

And although his style looks easy, like he’s loping to the library, it’s profoundly efficient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2025

His long, loping stride ratcheted up in rhythm over the final two laps, squeezing lungs and fraying rivals' form behind him.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

It was Wayne — America’s biggest movie star, the self-reliant enforcer, the loping lawman who set the world to rights by virtue of his unbending fortitude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

And they’re attracted to rhythmic thumps on the surface, so the Fremen — people who live in the Arrakis desert — walk in strange, loping, arrhythmic steps to avoid accidental detection.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Arya ran off to her horse, Nymeria loping at her heels.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin