Answer to "Horse's gait" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TROT which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.

Horse's gait crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer Likelyness Letters
TROT74 %4
CANTER9 %6
GALLOP4 %6
PACE4 %4
RACK3 %4
PRANCE3 %6
VOLT1 %4
LOPE1 %4

Why may TROT be the right solution?

The answer is "TROT" because it is a common four-beat gait of a horse, characterized by a diagonal pair of legs moving forward together.

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Horse's gait

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • pace
  • trot
  • canter
  • gallop
  • running
  • rack
  • tripping
  • trotter
  • career
  • prick
  • prance
  • buck

Crossword Answer definitions

TROT noun
  1. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
  2. Equipment with legs.
  3. Type of equipment.
  4. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
  5. The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
  6. An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
  7. (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
  8. (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
TROT noun
  1. Heroin (drug).
TROT noun
  1. An ugly old woman, a hag.
  2. (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).
  3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
  4. A brisk journey or progression.
  5. A toddler.
  6. A young animal.
  7. A moderately rapid dance.
  8. A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
  9. (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
  10. (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
TROT verb
  1. To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
  2. (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
  3. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
TROT noun
  1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
TROT noun
  1. A supporter of Trotskyism.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

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