trot

A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village.

A brisk journey or progression.

We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.

In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.

A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.

The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot.[…]The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.

A toddler.

1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.

A moderately rapid dance.

To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.

The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.

To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.

A particular friend of mine complained that I had "trotted" him at a sale, but he did not see what was happening on the part of the other bidder.

A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.