Toddle vs Lope - What's the difference?
toddle | lope | Related terms |
To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
To walk in a carefree manner.
(obsolete) To jump, leap.
*, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
*: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
*Middleton
*:He that lopes on the ropes.
To travel an easy pace with long strides.
:He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
Toddle is a related term of lope.
As a verb toddle
is to walk unsteadily, as a small child does.As a proper noun lope is
.toddle
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Verb
- There he was, just toddling along.
