gait

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: ɡeɪt
• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Homophones: gate

Etymology

gate, from Old Norse gata (road).

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

1. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

   Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.

2. (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.

Translations

manner of walking

• Bashkir: аҙым (aðïm)
• Bulgarian: походка (bg) (pohódka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步態 (cmn), 步态 (cmn) (bùtài)

• Czech: chůze (cs) f
• Dutch: gang (nl) m
• Esperanto: marŝo (eo)
• Finnish: käynti (fi), astunta (fi)
• French: démarche (fr) f
• German: Gang (de) m
• Icelandic: göngulag (is) n
• Irish: siúl (ga) m

• Japanese: 足取り (ja) (あしどり, ashidori)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: لاروله‌نجه‌

• Norwegian: ganglag (no) n

  Bokmål: gange (no) c

• Romanian: pas (ro)
• Russian: походка (ru) (poxódka) f, поступь (ru) (póstupʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: gluasad (gd) m
• Spanish: zancada (es) f
• Swedish: gång (sv), gångstil (sv)

horse's way of moving

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步法 (cmn) (bùfǎ)

• Finnish: askellaji (fi)
• French: allure (fr) m

• German: Gangart (de) f
• Icelandic: gangtegund (is) f
• Russian: аллюр (ru) (alljúr) m
• Swedish: gångart (sv)

Verb

gait (third-person singular simple present gaits, present participle gaiting, simple past and past participle gaited)

1. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Anagrams

• Gita, taig