trot
/tɹɑt/ verb C2- To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run. · I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.· The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
- To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
He/she/it trots · Past trotted · Past participle trotted · -ing form trotting
Verb forms
- Base form
- trot
- He/she/it
- trots
- Past
- trotted
- Past participle
- trotted
- -ing form
- trotting
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It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh!
It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself “The Duchess!
So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood.
A fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away, taking Mowgli with them.
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