canter

3 definitions • 3 examples

If a horse canters, it moves at quite a fast but easy and comfortable speed:

The riders cantered round the field a few times.

a speed of movement on a horse that is quite fast but easy and comfortable, or a ride on a horse at this speed:

The horses set off at a canter.

We moved along the verge at a brisk canter.

(of a horse) to move in a way that is like a slow gallop