To travel an easy pace with long strides. / (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.

An easy pace with long strides.

plural of lope

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lope

simple past tense and past participle of lope

present participle of lope

(chess) A common chess opening, an Open Game characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, in which White moves king's bishop to the fifth rank.

(pharmacology) A synthetic antidiarrheal agent of the opiate class (trademark Imodium) that slows intestinal peristalsis and is taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₉H₃₃ClN₂O₂·HCl to control acute nonspecific diarrhea or chronic diarrhea associated with inflammatory bowel disease or to reduce fecal volume discharged from ileostomies.

One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper. / (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

(Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.