loped

The wolf loped on for what seemed like days.

One morning in January, about 30 ninth and 10th graders, many of them dressed in navy blue school sweatshirts and gray pants, loped into a class called Software Engineering 1.

As Ewing thanked the students, then loped across the court toward a television interview, he took a long, needed swig from a water bottle.

Then we waited a few more minutes while our kids loped back and forth between the hoops, not really communicating, before taking our charges home.

The wolf dog gave one last cry before he turned away and loped off into the darkness.