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trot

noun · verb · 25 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • General-American: /tɹɑt/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /tɹɒt/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒt
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  • CMU ARPABET: T R AA1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A brisk journey or progression.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
  • In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A toddler.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, [...] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A moderately rapid dance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A young animal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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7

noun

Meaning 7

An ugly old woman, a hag.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, derogatory

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8

noun

Meaning 8

A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, obsolete

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9

noun

Meaning 9

A run of luck or fortune.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand

Examples

  • He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: dated, slang

Qualifier: among students

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: horse

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Diarrhoea.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

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14

noun

Meaning 14

A Trotskyite.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory, slang

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15

verb

Meaning 15

To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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17

verb

Meaning 17

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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18

verb

Meaning 18

To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, archaic, slang, transitive

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19

noun

Meaning 19

a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gait

Narrower terms: rising trot, sitting trot

20

noun

Meaning 20

a slow pace of running

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jog, lope

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: locomotion, travel

Narrower terms: dogtrot

21

noun

Meaning 21

a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pony, crib

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version

22

noun

Meaning 22

radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Trotskyite, Trotskyist

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: radical

23

verb

Meaning 23

run at a moderately swift pace

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jog, clip

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: run

24

verb

Meaning 24

cause to trot

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • She trotted the horse home

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: walk

25

verb

Meaning 25

ride at a trot

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ride horseback

History

Etymology

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh2- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.

Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.

Clipping.

Across languages

Translations

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: подти́чване (podtíčvane) — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Czech: klus — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Czech: poklus — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Irish: sodar — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Italian: trotterellio — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Russian: трусца́ (truscá) — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Russian: бы́стрый шаг (býstryj šag) — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Spanish: trote — a gait of a person faster than a walk
  • Armenian: վարգ (varg) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Breton: tus — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Bulgarian: тръс (trǎs) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Catalan: trot — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Czech: klus — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Dutch: draf — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Esperanto: troto — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Finnish: ravi — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • French: trot — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Galician: trote — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Georgian: ცუნცული (cunculi) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Georgian: ძუნძული (ʒunʒuli) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • German: Trab — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Icelandic: brokk — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Ido: troto — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Irish: sodar — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Italian: trotto — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Japanese: 速歩 (hayaashi) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Macedonian: кас (kas) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Māori: toitoi — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Norwegian: trav — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tråv — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Persian: یرتمه (yortme) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Persian: پویه (puye) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Polish: kłus — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Portuguese: trote — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Russian: рысь (rysʹ) — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̑с — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȃs — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Spanish: trote — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Swedish: trav — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Turkish: tırıs — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Welsh: tuth — gait of an animal between walk and canter
  • Japanese: トロット (torotto) — moderately rapid dance
  • Korean: 트로트 (teuroteu) — moderately rapid dance
  • Russian: трот (trot) — moderately rapid dance
  • Spanish: foxtrot — moderately rapid dance
  • Italian: megera — ugly old woman
  • Russian: ста́рая карга́ (stáraja kargá) — ugly old woman
  • Russian: ста́рая кля́ча (stáraja kljáča) — ugly old woman
  • Sicilian: vecchia nzìpita — ugly old woman
  • Spanish: bruja — ugly old woman
  • Spanish: arpía — ugly old woman
  • Turkish: acuze — ugly old woman
  • Spanish: racha — run of luck or fortune
  • Bulgarian: подтичвам (podtičvam) — walk rapidly
  • Czech: klusat — walk rapidly
  • Czech: poklusávat — walk rapidly
  • Esperanto: troti — walk rapidly
  • Finnish: ravata — walk rapidly
  • French: trotter — walk rapidly
  • Irish: bí ag sodar — walk rapidly
  • Italian: trottare — walk rapidly
  • Persian: پوییدن (puyidan) — walk rapidly
  • Russian: спеши́ть (spešítʹ) — walk rapidly
  • Russian: торопи́ться (toropítʹsja) — walk rapidly
  • Spanish: trotar — walk rapidly
  • Turkish: koşmak — walk rapidly
  • Turkish: yetmek — walk rapidly
  • Turkish: yelmek — walk rapidly
  • Turkish: seğirtmek — walk rapidly
  • Turkish: yortmak — walk rapidly
  • Bulgarian: вървя в тръс (vǎrvja v trǎs) — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Catalan: anat al trot — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Catalan: trotar — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Czech: klusat — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Esperanto: troti — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Finnish: ravata — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • French: aller au trot — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • French: aller le trot — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • French: trotter — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Galician: trotar — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • German: traben — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Icelandic: brokka — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Ido: trotar — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Irish: bí ag sodar — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Italian: andare al trotto — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Italian: andare di trotto — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Italian: trottare — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Macedonian: каска (kaska) — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Māori: toi — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Māori: toitoi — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Norwegian: trave — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Persian: یرتمه رفتن (yortme raftan) — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Polish: kłusować — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Polish: pokłusować — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Portuguese: trotar — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Quechua: chahchay — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Romanian: trota — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Russian: идти́ ры́сью (idtí rýsʹju) — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̏сати — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȁsati — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Spanish: trotar — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Swedish: trava — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Turkish: tırıs gitmek — (of a horse) move at a gait between a walk and a canter
  • Ido: trotigar — transitive: to cause to move in the pace called a trot