| canter definition | medium pace motion of a horse |
| canter synonyms | lope |
| canter usage | I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe.
(source: Charles Dickens in 'A Tale Of Two Cities') It was not a trot, a gallop, or a canter, but a stampede, and made up of all possible or conceivable gaits. (source: Mark Twain in 'The Innocents Abroad') And they set out at as hard a canter as their horses could maintain. (source: Alexandre Dumas in 'Twenty Years After') And when, at last, Daylight decided that the horse had had enough, he turned him around abruptly and put him into a gentle canter on the forward track. (source: Jack London in 'Burning Daylight') |
| canter definition | ride at a medium pace motion |
| canter synonyms | lope |
| canter usage | On listening the police sirens, the bandits cantered away.
He made the Sawhorse canter all the way down the hill, and only breathed easily when they were miles away from the village. (source: L. Frank Baum in 'The Emerald City of Oz') |
| at a canter | easily; without much effort |
| usage | The hometeam won the game at a canter.
Spain qualified for the next FIFA World Cup at a canter, winning all the group matches it played. |
| in a canter | easily; without much effort |
| usage | She will win the race in a canter.
Brazil could have won the match in a canter, but the complacent players made it a close one. |
| walk | Walk is the slow, leisure motion of a horse.
The walk is a four-beat gait that averages about 4 miles per hour (about 6 km per hour). When walking, a horse's legs follow this sequence: left hind leg, left front leg, right hind leg, right front leg, in a regular 1-2-3-4 beat. At the walk, the horse will always have one foot raised and the other three feet on the ground, save for a brief moment when weight is being transferred from one foot to another. |
| trot | Trot is the medium-pace, purposeful motion of a horse.
The trot is a two-beat gait and averages about 8 miles per hour (about 13 km per hour). In this gait, the horse moves its legs in unison in diagonal pairs. The trot is the working gait for a horse. The trot is the main way horses travel quickly from one place to the other. |
| canter | Canter is the fast motion of a horse.
The canter is a controlled, three-beat gait. The average speed of a canter is about 16 miles per hour (about 25 km per hour). Listening to a horse canter, one can usually hear the three beats as though a drum had been struck three times in succession, followed by a brief pause followed by the next three-beats. |
| gallop | Gallop is the fastest motion of a horse.
The gallop is a four-beat gait. It is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about 32 miles per hour (about 51 km per hour) The fastest galloping speed is achieved by the American quarter horse, which in a short sprint of a quarter mile or less has been clocked at speeds approaching 55 miles per hour (about 89 km per hour). |
