1. Run at a moderately swift pace
   "She trotted down the street";
   - jog, clip
    
2. (riding) ride at a trot
   "They trotted their horses around the paddock"
    
3. Cause to trot
   "She trotted the horse home"

1. A gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together
   "The horse broke into a trot as they approached the stable"
    
2. A slow pace of running
   "His morning trot helped him stay fit";
   - jog, lope
    
3. A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
   "The student relied on a trot to translate the Latin text";
   - pony [N. Amer], crib
    
4. [Austral] A run of good or bad luck
   "He's been on a good trot at the casino lately"

1. Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
   - Trotskyite, Trotskyist

Derived forms: Trots, trots, trotted, trotting

Type of: gait, interlingual rendition, locomotion, rad [informal], radical, rendering, ride horseback, run, translation, travel, version, walk

Encyclopedia: Trot