Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]

He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.

“And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”

1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
he that lopes on the ropes

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