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- noun Plural form of
gait .
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Examples
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So off you go, at that most exhausting of gaits, which is for some reason adopted on these occasions by young and old alike – the country-house stroll.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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With regard to the representation of other "gaits" of the horse than that of the rapid gallop -- such as canter, trot, amble, rack, and walk -- I have no doubt that instantaneous photography can (and in practice does) furnish the painter with perfectly correct and at the same time useful and satisfactory poses of the horse's limbs.
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No complete study of the "gaits" of large animals other than the horse has been made, since menagerie specimens and menagerie conditions are not satisfactory for the purpose, and, unfortunately, it has not been possible as yet to take series of photographs of them in their wild conditions.
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Horses have 4 natural gaits: the walk, trot, canter and gallop.
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In between movements men and women alike walk on or off stage in their "street" gaits.
Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions Larissa Archer 2011
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Getty Images Australian researchers compared the hand preference of 19 boys and 11 girls with idiopathic toe-walking gait, and a control group of 16 boys and 14 girls with normal gaits.
Losing Baby Fat Lowers Heart Risks Later Ann Lukits 2011
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In between movements men and women alike walk on or off stage in their "street" gaits.
Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions Larissa Archer 2011
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Horses have 4 natural gaits: the walk, trot, canter and gallop.
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In between movements men and women alike walk on or off stage in their "street" gaits.
Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions Larissa Archer 2011
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In between movements men and women alike walk on or off stage in their "street" gaits.
Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions Larissa Archer 2011
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