Trot

Definition: Trot

Trot

Noun

1. A slow pace of running.

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

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

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

Verb

1. Run at a moderately swift pace.

2. Ride at a trot.

3. Cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Note: Trot \Trot\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Trotted; Trotting.]. (Websters 1913)

Slang in 1811

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Trot

Amusement

Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.

Impulse

Fall into a rut, fall into a custom; (conform to); tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.

Adjective: habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; Verb: of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood.

Interpretation

Translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew; (indication); clavis, crib, pony, trot.

Journey

Take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop; (move quickly).

Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.

Manifestation

Verb: make manifest, render manifest; Adjective: bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim; (publish).

Ostentation

Show off, show off one's paces; parade, march past; display, exhibit, put forward, hold up; trot out, hand out; sport, brandish, blazon forth; dangle, dangle before the eyes.

Slowness

Jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Crosswords: Trot

French (trot, trotting), Scottish (trot).

They was giving me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot! The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars! (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

They was giving me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I'm hot to trot! The next woman takes me on's gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars! (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

Yeah, you're gonna trot right up to seventy-nine. (The Towering Inferno; writing credit: Richard Martin Stern; Thomas N. Scortia)

Trotter on the Trot (1920)

Aventuras de Jim Trot (1917)

Fox Trot Finesse (1915)

Pimple Does the Turkey Trot (1912)

Hot to Trot (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Au pas, au trot, au galop (reference)

• The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, Together With the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'N (reference)

• The magic of Oz; a faithful record of the remarkable adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a magical and beautiful birthday present for Princes (reference)

• The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, Together With the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry (reference)

• Born to Trot (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bring Back the Romance of Dance, Vol. 1 - The Fox Trot & Swing (reference)

• Hot to Trot! (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shostakovich:Symphony No.11/Jazz Suite No.1/Waltz II/Jazz Suite No.II/Tahiti Trot (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Turkey trot. Credit: Library of Congress.

A great double team trot. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood.

The courier cried out to the man to stop, but the traveller did not listen and kept on his way at a rapid trot.

Ruthie and Winfield broke into a trot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "trot": at a trot ♦ break into a trot ♦ equal trot ♦ even trot ♦ fox trot ♦ go for a trot ♦ go on in the old jog trot way ♦ jog trot ♦ keep smb. on the trot ♦ on the trot ♦ rising trot ♦ round trot ♦ sitting trot ♦ To trot out ♦ trot about ♦ trot along ♦ trot away ♦ trot off ♦ trot out ♦ trot over ♦ trot round ♦ trot sitting ♦ trot two miles ♦ turkey trot. Additional references.

Ending with "trot": dog-trot, fox-trot, globe-trot, half-trot, jog-trot, Turkey-trot.

Albanian

trok, fëmijë që mëson të ecë, ecje me trok, ecje e shpejtë (clip, double). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هرولة, ‏هرول (hurry, jog, run, rush, scurry), ‏ترجمة حرفية (metaphrase, pony), ‏سرع (accelerate, career, chase, fast, force, get a move on, gun, hasten, hurry up, hustle, lollop, pelt, pounce, push, quicken, rush, smarten, speed, speed up, step on it, throttle), ‏خرج للنزهة, ‏خبب (pace), ‏خب, ‏إجتاز خببا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

яздя в тръс, тръс (jog), отивам пешком, бърз ход (double, lick, pelt, spurt), буквален превод под текст, проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, prostitute, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trollop, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore), прохождащо дете, привеждам като пример, привеждам като доказателство, припкам (scurry), потичвам (have a run), показвам (demonstrate, denote, dial, disclose, display, evince, exhibit, give, indicate, manifest, present, proclaim, protrude, read, register, show, show around, signify, stick, tell, witness), демонстрирам (demonstrate, display). (various references)

Chinese 

小跑 (Trotted, Trotting), 快步跑 . (various references)

Czech

vyjížïka na koni, poklus (run), klusat (jog), cval (gallop, galloping), cválat, bìžet (leg it, run, rush, scoot, speed, sprint, work). (various references)

Danish

trave (to trot), almindelig trav (ordinary trot). (various references)

Dutch

dribbelen, draven (to trot). (various references)

Esperanto

troti. (various references)

Faeroese

renna (flow, run), ganga kvikliga. (various references)

Farsi 

یورتمه رفتن , یورتمه روی (Gait), یورتمه , کودک (Babe, Baby, Child, Chit, Infant, Kid), عجوزه (Hag, Hellcat, Mare), صدای یورتمه رفتن اسب , بچه تاتی کن . (various references)

Finnish

ravi, ravata (to trot), lönkyttää (jog), ajaa ravia. (various references)

French

trotter (to trot), trot (trotting). (various references)

Frisian

drave. (various references)

German

trotten (jog, lollop, lollop along, plod, shamble, to jog, to trot, tootle, trail), Trab, trott (jog, plod, routine, rut), traben (jog). (various references)

Greek 

τριποδίζω (canter). (various references)

Hebrew 

ריצ�" אטית. (various references)

Hungarian

ügetés (canter, jogging, lope). (various references)

Indonesian

derap lari, berderap (sizzle). (various references)

Italian

trottare (to trot). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

速足 (quick march, quick pace), トロイヤ群 (toilette, tongs, ton-kilometer, Tonkin, Toronto, Trojan group, trolleybus, trombone, trompe-l'oeil, TRON, trophy, tropical, tropical drink, tropical fish, tropical fruits, tropical plant, Trotskism, Trotskist, truck, tunnel, tunnel diode, twilight, you and I). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トロット , はやあし (quick march, quick pace). (various references)

Manx

troytal (trotting), dridal (trot out, trot out as horse), drid (jogtrot). (various references)

Maya

bubuchaankil (to trot). (various references)

Pig Latin

ottray

Portuguese

trotar (to trot). (various references)

Romanian

tropãi (clamp, clump, pound, stamp one's foot, tramp), trepãda (fidget), treapãd, trap, parcurge o distanţã la trap, mers grãbit (scamper, scuttle), merge la trap, învãţa o lecţie de limbi strãine. (various references)

Russian 

старуха (crone, gammer, old woman), рысь (bobcat, lynx), торопливая походка (scuttle), шпаргалка (crib). (various references)

Scottish

trot. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokazati (demonstrate, display, evince, flash, indicate, point, point out, produce, set forth, show, tell, trot out), kasati (amble), kasačka trka, kas (jog), jahati kasom. (various references)

Spanish

trote, trotar (to trot). (various references)

Swedish

trava (stack), trav (trotting), lunka (amble, jog, jog along, jog on, plod, tramp, trudge). (various references)

Thai

การเหยาะย่าง (แบบม้า) (jog trot). (various references)

Turkish

tek atlı araba yarışı, tırısa kaldırmak (trot out), tırıs gitmek, tırıs, kopya (carbon copy, copy, crib, cribbing, ditto, double, duplicate, duplication, exemplar, facsimile, image, likeness, manifold, printing out, repetition, replica, replication, repro, spit, tracing, transcript, transcription), kırıtarak yürüme, hızlı yürüyüş (quick march), hızlı yürümek (be a good walker, leg, leg it, step out, walk quickly), cevap anahtarı, acele etmek (be in a hurry, buck up, come along, drive, get a move on, hasten, hie, hotfoot, hotfoot it, hurry, hurry up, hustle, make haste, put a jerk in it, rush, scour, scour about, scurry, shake a leg, step on it, streak). (various references)

Turkmen 

selpemek (look for), gezer (jog). (various references)

Ukrainian

рись (dog-trot, lynx), швидка хода, бігти риссю. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nước kiệu sự chuyển động nhanh. (various references)

Welsh

tuthio, tuth. (various references)

cucurrerint, cucurrerit, cucurrero, cucurrerunt, cucurri, cucurrisset, cucurrit, curram, curramus, currat, curre, currebant, currebas, currebat, currebatis, curremus, currendam, currendum, currens, current, currentem, currentes, currenti, currentis, currentium, currere, currerem, curret, curris, currit, currite, curro, currunt, cursu, cursum, cursus. (various references)

troter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trot": troth, trothed, trothing, trothplight, trothplighted, trothplighting, trothplights, troths, trotline, trotlines, trots, trotted, trotter, trotters, trotting, trotyl, trotyls. (additional references)

Words ending with "trot": dogtrot, foxtrot, outtrot. (additional references)

Words containing "trot": betroth, betrothal, betrothals, betrothed, betrotheds, betrothing, betroths, dogtrots, dogtrotted, dogtrotting, electrotherapies, electrotherapy, electrothermal, electrothermally, electrotonic, electrotonically, electrotonus, electrotonuses, electrotype, electrotyped, electrotyper, electrotypers, electrotypes, electrotyping, foxtrots, foxtrotted, foxtrotting, gastrotrich, gastrotrichs, outtrots, outtrotted, outtrotting, trinitrotoluene, trinitrotoluenes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arot, drot, erot, erott, Rtitb, strot, teot, terot, terott, thot, throot, throt, thrott, tlot, torit, torq, torta, Torti, tott, traft, trat, tratt, treft, tret, triot, trit, Tritc, tritr, tritt, tro, trob, troc, troe, trof, troft, trog, troh, troit, trom, troo, troog, troot, trooz, trote, trotty, trou, trox, truft, truit, trute, truv, truz, tryt, turit, tvro, twot, vtsoft. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tort.

-1 letter: ort, rot, tor, tot.

-2 letters: or, to.

+1 letter: ottar, otter, rotte, tarot, torot, torte, torts, toter, troth, trots, trout, tutor.

+2 letters: attorn, bettor, cottar, cotter, dotter, extort, grotto, grotty, hotter, intort, jotter, ottars, otters, potter, prutot, ratton, retort, rotate, rotgut, rotted, rotten, rotter, rottes, stator, tarots, throat, tooter, toroth, torten, tortes, toters, tother, totter, touter, tricot, triton, troths, trotyl, trouts, trouty, trowth, tryout, turbot, tutors.