lope UK /ləʊp/US /loʊp/verb 2noun 1forms 3 verb2 •To travel an easy pace with long strides.He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground. •(no longer used) To jump, leap.And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver — 1889 noun1 •An easy pace with long strides.Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt. — 2022 formsloped · loping · lopes
