to trot to
- phrasal verb
- /trɑt tu/
- The children trotted to the playground as soon as the bell rang.
- trotted to the door
- trotted to the car
- trotted to the mound
Examples
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The dog came to its feet, growling more openly now, then trotted to the door and gave a low bark.
Fiction book (1990) -
Doesn't he ever trot to New York?
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Then they trotted to the field's far end.
Fiction book (2000) -
David trots to a stop and waves.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sang trotted to where the ball lay.
Fiction book (1998) -
Brokefang trotted to the head of the line.
Fiction book (1994) -
Snuffles trotted to the far side of the shed.
Fiction book (1997) -
I trotted to the mound and forgot everything but pitching.
Fiction book (2002) -
The bull trotted to the edge of the arena, folded his legs, and lay down.
Fiction book (1995) -
Pennies jingled in her red purse as she trotted to Grizzly's Store.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
To run at a steady slow speed for exercise
To move faster than a walk but slower than a run, often used for animals
Walk quickly for a short distance to a nearby place
To walk quickly for exercise, faster than a normal walk
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
trot + to
The meaning 'to go briskly to a place' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'trot' (to move briskly between walking and running) with the directional marker 'to'. This motion-verb + direction pattern is a straightforward compositional construction common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Trot to comes from the image of a horse's steady, quick step, the trot, which is 'faster than walking but slower than running'. So trot to now means 'to go briskly to' a place.