Synonyms:
pace, gait
Meaning: the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
Usage examples
Presently he eased Star's gait, for the horse was beginning to breath too heavily.
Then she turned suddenly and left me, walking still with the same unchanging gait.
Tom could see Marjorie crouching, riding to his gait, holding him down for the jump.
The other was a tall, awkward country lad, with a lounging gait, and apparently somewhat of a rustic beau.
And after him, at such a gait that would have been his fortune, in a professional way, was the little doctor.
A lady ought to have a modest and measured gait; too great hurry injures the grace which ought to characterize her.
There had been no doubt about his eyes and his gait; there was no doubt now about his voice, as he answered softly from below--"All right!"
Mexico gave a protesting grunt as if to say: "What's the use of that, now we're so near?" He quickened his gait into a languid trot. Rounding a great clump of black chaparral he stopped short.
The only ghost I ever saw Was dressed in mechlin, -- so; He wore no sandal on his foot, And stepped like flakes of snow. His gait was soundless, like the bird, But rapid, like the roe; His fashions quaint, mosaic, Or, haply, mistletoe.
With a long overcoat on his exceedingly stout, round-shouldered body, with uncovered white head and puffy face showing the white ball of the eye he had lost, Kutuzov walked with plunging, swaying gait into the crowd and stopped behind the priest.