canter
Three-beat horse pace
Canter is a horse's gait between trot and gallop—a smooth, three-beat pace.
The word comes from "Canterbury gallop," the easy pace pilgrims supposedly used traveling to Canterbury.
As a verb, to canter is to ride or move at this pace: The horse cantered across the meadow.
Figuratively, to win in a canter is to win easily, without full effort.
Atop a steed
- saddleMounted rider's seat
- bridleEquine control harness
- stirrupsSaddle-hung foot supports
- arenaVenue for contests
manege · rider · hack · paddock · mare · stallion · gelding · hoofbeats
Segment of text
- half-passDiagonal two-track movement
- caprioleLeaping horse kick
- pirouetteBallet turn on one foot
- collectionGathered set of items
impulsion · straightness · regularity · submission · engagement · elevation · cadence · test
horseback
Atop a steed
arena · manege · rider · hack · paddock · mare · stallion · gelding · hoofbeats · reins
passage
Segment of text
collection · impulsion · straightness · regularity · submission · engagement · elevation · cadence · test · movement
lope
Easy, swinging gait
stride · amble · jog · walk · run · sprint · bound · prance · clip · collected
hack
Shortcut or breach
- ambleRelaxed, slow gait
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- relaxedFree of stress
unhurried · easygoing · scenic · ramble · meander · pleasant · gentle · steady · comfortable · controlled
- horseshorse, mare, mares, stallion, stallions
- horsemanshipriding lesson, riding lessons, riding school, riding schools, riding instructor
- Dressagepassage, pirouette, half-pass, shoulder-in, capriole
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- horse racingthoroughbred, horse racing, racehorse, flat race, horses
- forward motionwalking, running, jogging, sprinting, marching
canterstandstill
Total cessation of movement
halt · stop · stillness · rest · immobility
- The Canterbury TalesMedieval frame narrative collection
- Canterbury CathedralHistoric English mother church
- Canterbury TalesMedieval English story collection
- thieves' cantCoded criminal vocabulary
- Cantor's theoremPowersets always strictly larger
- Archbishop of CanterburyHead of English church
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