<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object)<ul><li>To ride a horse at a gallop; ride at full speed.</li><li>To run rapidly by leaps, as a horse; go at a gallop.</li><li>To go fast, race, or hurry, as a person or time.</li><li><strong>Synonyms</strong>: scoot, fly, speed, dash, rush, run.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)<ul><li>To cause (a horse or other animal) to gallop.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A fast gait of the horse or other quadruped in which, in the course of each stride, all four feet are off the ground at once.</li><li>A run or ride at this gait.</li><li>A rapid rate of going.</li><li>A period of going rapidly.</li></ul>