quick trot
- noun
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trote rápido
- Marcel broke into a quick trot, then into a dead run, his cloak flying behind him.
Examples
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Or a quick trot down the road to the Hansom Cab, which was, of course, Jeremy's choice.
Fiction book (1995) -
Umpisana started a quick trot across the village toward the pasture.
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We moved through the grass at a quick trot.
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Marcel broke into a quick trot, then into a dead run, his cloak flying behind him.
Synonyms
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5.1
A marching pace faster than walking and slower than running at about 120 steps per minute
A gentle, steady way a horse moves between walking and trotting
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'quick' simply modifies 'trot' to indicate a brisk/intermediate gait, so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. Both words are frequent and the adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily understand it.
Etymology
Quick trot comes from horse riding: a trot is a steady, bouncy step that is faster than walking but slower than running. So a 'quick trot' means a brisk, steady movement between a walk and a run.