1. Moving easily and quickly; nimble
   "walked with a light tripping step";
   - light, lightsome
    
2. Characterized by a buoyant rhythm
   "a tripping singing measure";
   - lilting, swinging, swingy

1. Make a trip for pleasure
   "They tripped to Paris for the weekend";
   - travel, jaunt
    
2. Miss a step and fall or nearly fall
   "She tripped over the tree root";
   - stumble
    
3. Cause to stumble
   "The questions on the test tripped him up";
   - trip up
    
4. Put in motion, initiate (a device, reaction, circuit, etc)
   "trip the circuits";
   - actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off
    
5. Get high, stoned, or drugged
   "He trips every weekend"; "They tripped out on psychedelic mushrooms";
   - trip out [informal], turn on [informal], get off [informal]
    
6. Turn electric power off (using a switch or as a safety measure)
   "The circuit breaker tripped when the system was overloaded"

See also: light-footed, rhythmic, rhythmical

Type of: entrammel [literary], experience, feel, fetter [literary], go, hinder, impede, initiate, locomote, move, pioneer, trammel [literary], travel

Encyclopedia: Tripping