trot Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a slow pace of running
lope; jog.
noun radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
Trotskyite; Trotskyist.
noun a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
pony; crib.
noun a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
verb run at a moderately swift pace
jog; clip.
verb ride at a trot
verb cause to trot
- She trotted the horse home

OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trottn to tread. See Tread.

imperfect & past participle Trotted; present participle & verbal noun Trotting

To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. Franklin.

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

F. See Trot, v. i.

The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." Stillman (The Horse in Motion).
Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
One who trots; a child; a woman.
An old trot with ne'er a tooth. Shak.