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The fastest speed of a horse.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Horses may walk, trot, canter or gallop.
  • Did you gallop the horse just now?
  • In order to avoid that risk again, the jockey would have Spread the Word gallop for a mile or two before a race so as to exhaust it.
  • It can be either and a gallop is a "no-no" in a harness race.
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  • The dancer appeared to "gallop" (to run fast) through the "galop" (a kind of dance).
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