lope along

lope along

To run, glide, or bound onward with a long, swinging stride. The deer loped along, blissfully unaware of the hunter putting it in his sights. I was struggling to keep up while Tom just loped along beside me.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lope along

to move along, bounding. The dog loped along at a very even pace, answering to his master's whistle. The horses loped along, eager to get home.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • sweep along
  • stride for stride
  • scamper
  • scamper along
  • scurry
  • scurry along
  • break (one's) stride
  • break stride
  • trot along
  • send along
References in periodicals archive
Is it wise to just lope along until threatened by loss?
The near-14-1 shot went wire to wire to land the $250,000 event, in which the British duo did best of those coming from off the pace as Ultimate Eagle and Imagining were allowed to lope along on the front end.
It is not a particularly quiet engine and it's intrusive when pressed hard, but it runs well and the gear ratios give it strong pull for overtaking while letting it lope along on main roads.
The engine noise is intrusive when pressed hard but it runs well and the gear ratios give it strong pull for overtaking while letting it lope along on main roads.
What underlies the bounding mirth that seems to lope along underneath everything Handel wrote?
In the reining event, the horse would lope along, then the rider would imperceptibly hit the brakes, and the horse would skid to a stop.
At Alltel Corp., the paths of global communication that lope along land lines, bounce among cell towers and course along the fiber optic superhighway of the Internet have been converging since January.
They're repetitive and much given to senseless slow-motion sequences in which the actors lope along with the fraudulent fluidity that by this point in the history of film evokes nothing save its own mannered falsity; they raise imitation murder weapons and Be them in molasses time, as muffled gunshot noises ring out and victims collapse like dying swans.
As usual, Smith rode the giant mare with the utmost confidence, allowing her to lope along right at the back of the nine-runner field, well adrift of front-runner Dance To My Tune.
Out on the road the softly-sprung Consul was quite happy just to lope along at 50 to 60mph, offering a more than comfortable ride without any of the bumping and jarring that comes with some new sporty models with their rock hard suspension.
There's little point thrashing it, in fact it's best to let it lope along on what is a surprising amount of grunt available from lower revs.
The long gearing helps in this quest for efficiency, but it can also make for a few surprises as you move through the range, occasionally you have to leave it in a gear for longer than you expect, or you change up too early and try to lope along at about 3rpm.