(gallops, galloping, galloped)
1.
When a horse gallops, it runs very fast so that all four legs are off the ground at the same time. If you gallop a horse, you make it gallop.
The horses galloped away...
Staff officers galloped fine horses down the road.
VERB: V adv/prep, V n prep/adv
2.
If you gallop, you ride a horse that is galloping.
Major Winston galloped into the distance.
VERB: V prep/adv
3.
A gallop is a ride on a horse that is galloping.
I was forced to attempt a gallop.
N-SING
4.
If something such as a process gallops, it develops very quickly and is often difficult to control.
In spite of the recession, profits have galloped ahead.
...galloping inflation.
VERB: V adv, V-ing
5.
If you gallop, you run somewhere very quickly.
They are galloping around the garden playing football.
VERB: V prep
6.
If you do something at a gallop, you do it very quickly.
I read the book at a gallop.
PHRASE: PHR after v