gait

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈgeɪt/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/geɪt/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(gāt)


WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
gait /geɪt/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a manner of walking or running:a slow gait.
  2. any of the ways in which a horse moves, as a walk, trot, canter, or gallop.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
gait  (gāt),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
  2. any of the manners in which a horse moves, as a walk, trot, canter, gallop, or rack.

v.t. 
  1. to teach a specified gait or gaits to (a horse).
  • Scots, Middle English spelling, spelled variant of gate1 in various senses 1500–10
    1. . walk, step, stride, bearing, carriage.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
gait /ɡeɪt/ n
  1. manner of walking or running; bearing
  2. (used esp of horses and dogs) the pattern of footsteps at various speeds, as the walk, trot, canter, etc, each pattern being distinguished by a particular rhythm and footfall
 vb
  1. (transitive) to teach (a horse) a particular gait
Etymology: 16th Century: variant of gate1
'gait' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
adjutant bird - amble - canter - crabbed - démarche - gallop - geometrid - harness race - hobble - jog trot - lope - mincing - motion - pace - pacer - rack - roll - run - single-foot - skip - slommock - slouch - staggers - step - stride - swagger - swamp fever - titubation - trot - waddle - walk - adjutant stork - cob - collected - creeps - dotty - extended - falter - festination - five-gaited - gaited - hackney - halting - hitch - limp - loper - lounge - lumpy - lurch - mézair
Collocations: has [a graceful, an awkward, a choppy] gait, set off with a [fast, quick] gait, [altered, quickened, changed] his gait, more...

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