(chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
(intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
(transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
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Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.
The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[...]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.
To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting trot at six miles an hour. Do not post.
[...]but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.