trotting

intransitive verb trotted, trotting

1. to move, ride, drive, run, or go at a trot
2. to move quickly; hurry; run

Origin: ME trotten < OFr troter < OHG trottōn, to tread: for IE base see tread

transitive verb

noun

1. a gait, as of a horse, in which a front leg and the opposite hind leg are lifted at the same time
2. a jogging gait of a person, between a walk and a run
3. the sound of a trotting horse
4. trotline
5. a horse race for trotters
6. ☆ Slang pony ()
7. Archaic an old woman: a contemptuous term