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Cantered
[kan-ter] 
| Main Entry: |
canter
[kan-ter]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jog |
| Synonyms: | lope, race, trot |
| Main Entry: | jog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run for recreation |
| Synonyms: | amble, canter, dash, dogtrot, lope, pace, sprint, trot |
| Main Entry: | jump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leap, spring |
| Synonyms: | bail out, barge, bob, bounce, bound, buck, canter, caper, clear, curvet, dive, drop, fall, gambol, hop, hurdle, hurtle, jerk, jiggle, jounce, lollop, lop, lunge, lurch, parachute, plummet, pop, quiver, rattle, ricochet, saltate, shake, skip, sky, somersault, surge, take, top, trip, vault, waver, wobble |
| Main Entry: | lope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stride |
| Synonyms: | bound, canter, gallop, run, trot |
| Main Entry: | pace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk back and forth |
| Synonyms: | ambulate, canter, foot it, gallop, hoof, march, patrol, pound*, step, stride, traipse, tread, troop, trot, walk up and down |
| Antonyms: | sit, stay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | run |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move fast on foot |
| Synonyms: | abscond, amble, barrel, beat it, bolt, bound, bustle, canter, career, clear out, course, cut and run, dart, dash, decamp, depart, dog it, escape, flee, flit, fly, gallop, go like lightning, hasten, hie, hotfoot, hurry, hustle, jog, leg it, light out, lope, make a break, make off, make tracks, pace, race, rush, scamper, scoot, scorch, scramble, scud, scurry, shag, shoot, skedaddle, skip, skitter, smoke*, speed, spring, sprint, spurt, take flight, take off, tear, tear out, travel, trot, whisk |
| Antonyms: | stand, walk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | skip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce or jump over |
| Synonyms: | bob, bolt, bound, buck, canter, caper, carom, cavort, dance, flee, flit, fly, frisk, gambol, glance, graze, hippety-hop, hop, leap, lope, make off, prance, ricochet, run, scamper, scoot, skedaddle, skim, skirr, skitter, spring, step, tiptoe, trip |
| Main Entry: | trip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall, err |
| Synonyms: | buck, canter, confuse, disconcert, fall over, founder, frolic, go headlong, go wrong, hop, lapse, lope, lose balance, lose footing, lurch, make a faux pas, miscalculate, misstep, pitch, play, plunge, skip, slide, slip, slip on, slip up, sprawl, spring, stumble, throw off, topple, tumble, unsettle |
| Antonyms: | correct, fix |
| Main Entry: | trot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move along briskly |
| Synonyms: | amble, canter, go, hurry, jog, lope, pad, rack, ride, run, scamper, step lively |
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