lope
verb (used without object)
to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.
are loping
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present progressiveof lope.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Polar bears look as if they are loping slowly at you, but they are covering a great distance,” the author says.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 14, 2015
Receivers no longer are loping alone in the middle of the field.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2012
A future of cities and factory smut where now are loping empty fields?
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Instead of riding toward them, however,—instead of approaching the ford by the most direct line,—these scouts are loping northward from the point where the trail crosses the ridge, and pushing for the stream.
From Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. by Charles King
