trot

• He has a fox trot, which is wonderfully easy, and which he apparently can keep up indefinitely, and like all Indian horses can ;run like a deer. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
• His pace was not more than a jog-trot, and he was limping along until he could see where the sandy road terminated, when he met a man in a car. —  The Dancing Druids - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 21: 1948
• After their return from a “course,” tired out from whipping their forlorn horses into the sideling trot which is all they are equal to, and after flicking their ears until they are too lazy to continue, they hang their hats and stockingless feet over the carriage lamps and chew sugar-cane, looking the picture of contentment. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
• He turned downtown at a dog-trot, and ran for three blocks south, one west, and two south. —  The Cosmic Rape
• On came the hoofs--trot, trot, trot; and evidently more than those of one horse; their speed as they advanced appeared to slacken--it was only, however, for a moment. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

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