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- Dictionarytrot/trɒt/
verb
- 1. (with reference to a horse or other four-legged animal) proceed or cause to proceed at a pace faster than a walk, lifting each diagonal pair of legs alternately: "the horses trotted slowly through the night"
- 2. (of a person) run at a moderate pace with short steps: "the child trotted across to her obediently"
noun
- 1. a trotting pace: "our horses slowed to a trot"
- 2. diarrhoea. informal
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If a horse or similar animal with four legs trots, it runs at its slowest speed, using short steps in which a front leg and the back leg on the opposite side move together: trot along She was trotting along on her pony. trot down The dog trotted down the path to greet me. Compare. canter verb. gallop verb.
If you trot somewhere, you move fairly fast at a speed between walking and running, taking small quick steps.
The meaning of TROT is to ride, drive, or proceed at a trot. How to use trot in a sentence.
4 days ago · To trot is move faster than walking, but not quite at a full-out run. You might trot down the street when you hear the ice cream truck coming. People can trot — as they do when they jog or do a slow run — and so can four-legged animals, especially horses.
1. a. The gait of a horse or other four-footed animal, between a walk and a canter in speed, in which diagonal pairs of legs move forward together. b. A ride on a horse moving with this gait. 2. A gait of a person, faster than a walk; a jog. 3. Sports A race for trotters. 4. See pony. 5. trots Informal Diarrhea. Used with the. 6. A toddler. 7.
Definition of trot verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A gait of a quadruped, originally of a horse, between walking and running, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs almost together, so that in a slow trot there is always one foot at least on the ground, but in a fast trot one pair leaves the ground before the other reaches it, all four feet being thus momentarily off the ground at once; hence ...
TROT meaning: 1 : to move at a speed faster than walking by stepping with each front leg at the same time as the opposite back leg; 2 : to run at a slow, steady pace
trot. noun. uk / trɒt / us. [ no plural ] the speed that a horse moves when it trots. on the trot. If you do several things on the trot, you do them one after the other: They won three games on the trot. (Definition of trot from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. If you trot somewhere, you move fairly fast at a speed between walking and running, taking small quick steps. [...] 2. When an animal such as a horse trots, it moves fairly fast, taking quick small steps. You can also say that the rider of the animal is trotting. [...] More. Definitions of 'Trot' informal. a follower of Trotsky; Trotskyist.
