galop

v. dance the galop dance

n. type of 19th century lively ballroom dance (in 2-4 time); music to this dance

In dance, the galop, named for the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade, is a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by the duchesse de Berry and popular in Vienna, Berlin and London. In the same closed position familiar in the waltz, the step combined a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, ordinarily in a fast 2/4 time. The galop was a forerunner of the polka, which was introduced in Prague ballrooms in the 1830s and made fashionable in Paris when Raab, a dancing teacher of Prague, danced the polka at the Odéon Theatre, 1840.
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n. gallop, fast run (of horse)

n. canter, easy gallop (of horse)

v. canter, ride a horse at an easy gallop

(n.)
A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.