Gallop vs Lunge - What's the difference?
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The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
(Intransitive. Of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
To ride at a galloping pace.
* John Donne
To cause to gallop.
To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
To run very fast.
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(figurative) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
* John Locke
A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
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A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and is used to control the animal while lungeing.
An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning back to a standing position.
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To make a sudden forward movement (present participle: (lunging)).
To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: (lunging) or (lungeing)).
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Gallop is a related term of lunge.
As nouns the difference between gallop and lunge
is that gallop is the fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously while lunge is blister, bulge.As a verb gallop
is (intransitive of a horse, etc) to run at a gallop.gallop
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The horse galloped past the finishing line.
- Gallop lively down the western hill.
- to gallop a horse
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- Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
lunge
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Alternative forms
* longe (US)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=A moment of madness from double goalscorer Kalinic put Rovers' fate back in the balance when the Croat caught Scharner with a late, dangerous lunge and was shown a straight red card by referee Phil Dowd.}}