Gait
noun
The way a person or animal walks or runs.
The horse has a smooth gait that makes riding comfortable.
Often appears as...
- smooth gait
- peculiar gait
noun
In medicine, a person's manner of walking, especially as related to a medical condition.
The doctor studied the patient's gait to assess her neurological condition.
Often appears as...
- abnormal gait
- clinical gait analysis
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noun
The way a person or animal walks or runs.
The horse has a smooth gait that makes riding comfortable.
Often appears as...
- smooth gait
- peculiar gait
noun
In medicine, a person's manner of walking, especially as related to a medical condition.
The doctor studied the patient's gait to assess her neurological condition.
Often appears as...
- abnormal gait
- clinical gait analysis
Usage tips
Neutral
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Observational Clue
Gait can indicate mood, personality, or health. Pay attention to descriptive adjectives that precede it.
The soldier's confident gait reflected his high spirits.
Pro Tip 2/3Unique Identifier
'Gait' can hint at a unique way of walking that helps in recognizing people.
Even from a distance, I knew it was her by her springy gait.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Locomotion
In animals, 'gait' often describes specific movement patterns or breed characteristics.
The dog trainer praised the beagle's steady gait.
Pro Tip 1/3Observational Clue
Gait can indicate mood, personality, or health. Pay attention to descriptive adjectives that precede it.
The soldier's confident gait reflected his high spirits.
Pro Tip 2/3Unique Identifier
'Gait' can hint at a unique way of walking that helps in recognizing people.
Even from a distance, I knew it was her by her springy gait.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Locomotion
In animals, 'gait' often describes specific movement patterns or breed characteristics.
The dog trainer praised the beagle's steady gait.
Pro Tip 1/3Observational Clue
Gait can indicate mood, personality, or health. Pay attention to descriptive adjectives that precede it.
The soldier's confident gait reflected his high spirits.
Pro Tip 2/3Unique Identifier
'Gait' can hint at a unique way of walking that helps in recognizing people.
Even from a distance, I knew it was her by her springy gait.
Pro Tip 3/3Animal Locomotion
In animals, 'gait' often describes specific movement patterns or breed characteristics.
The dog trainer praised the beagle's steady gait.
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A robot that runs and...
and automatically, the animal switches to swimming. This is amazing. Just changing the global drive, as if you are pressing the gas pedal of descending modulation to your spinal cord, makes a complete switch between two very different gaits. And in fact, the same has been observed in cats. If you stimulate the spinal cord of a cat,
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Robert Gupta: Between...
our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling with stress and anxiety and depression, how deeply Parkinsonian patients would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music,
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Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...
two so they're coming and I think here comes the injured female so you want to see how she's walking you didn't believe me that she was walking fine even though she's got that injury she's got a little bit of a limp but otherwise that is not a bad walking gait at all she's walking better
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Meet Spot, the robot dog...
It's got a gyroscope that helps stabilize it. It's got sensors and a control computer. Here's a Cheetah robot that's running with a galloping gait, where it recycles its energy, it bounces on the ground, and it's computing all the time in order to keep itself stabilized and propelled.
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Torsten Reil: Using...
to help aid surgeons who work on children with cerebral palsy, to predict the outcome of operations on these children. As you probably know, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome of an operation is if you try and correct the gait.
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Robert Full: Engineering...
It has six legs -- there are the tuned, springy legs. It moves in a gait that an insect uses, and here it is going on the treadmill. Now, what's important about this robot, compared to other robots, is that it can't see anything,
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Why should you read...
But soon, the sound of the desert is drowned out by a louder hissing. As a mound of sand races towards them, the pair’s unnatural gait turns into a sprint. The two clamber into a nearby rock face,
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A Handy Zombie...
rigor mortis has set in throughout the body stiffening its muscles giving it the classic shuffling gait of the undead this window shopper is a shuffler a zombies not long for the vertical world
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
they've got that a similar shape and and gait and and bounce to their running stride as well as similar sort of for me they seem like they have similar characters although there's a lot more
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The Making of Walking...
I'm really surprised about how little lateral movement there is I had expected a far wider side-to-side sway I think the gait might be very similar yes I don't have a problem with that I
Video examples
A robot that runs and...
and automatically, the animal switches to swimming. This is amazing. Just changing the global drive, as if you are pressing the gas pedal of descending modulation to your spinal cord, makes a complete switch between two very different gaits. And in fact, the same has been observed in cats. If you stimulate the spinal cord of a cat,
Video examples
Robert Gupta: Between...
our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling with stress and anxiety and depression, how deeply Parkinsonian patients would find that their tremor and their gait would steady when they listened to music,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...
two so they're coming and I think here comes the injured female so you want to see how she's walking you didn't believe me that she was walking fine even though she's got that injury she's got a little bit of a limp but otherwise that is not a bad walking gait at all she's walking better
Video examples
Meet Spot, the robot dog...
It's got a gyroscope that helps stabilize it. It's got sensors and a control computer. Here's a Cheetah robot that's running with a galloping gait, where it recycles its energy, it bounces on the ground, and it's computing all the time in order to keep itself stabilized and propelled.
Video examples
Torsten Reil: Using...
to help aid surgeons who work on children with cerebral palsy, to predict the outcome of operations on these children. As you probably know, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome of an operation is if you try and correct the gait.
Video examples
Robert Full: Engineering...
It has six legs -- there are the tuned, springy legs. It moves in a gait that an insect uses, and here it is going on the treadmill. Now, what's important about this robot, compared to other robots, is that it can't see anything,
Video examples
Why should you read...
But soon, the sound of the desert is drowned out by a louder hissing. As a mound of sand races towards them, the pair’s unnatural gait turns into a sprint. The two clamber into a nearby rock face,
Video examples
A Handy Zombie...
rigor mortis has set in throughout the body stiffening its muscles giving it the classic shuffling gait of the undead this window shopper is a shuffler a zombies not long for the vertical world
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
they've got that a similar shape and and gait and and bounce to their running stride as well as similar sort of for me they seem like they have similar characters although there's a lot more
Video examples
The Making of Walking...
I'm really surprised about how little lateral movement there is I had expected a far wider side-to-side sway I think the gait might be very similar yes I don't have a problem with that I
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Quote examples
Elie Metchnikoff
Russian Scientist
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Henry Ford
American Businessman
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
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LZ Granderson
American Journalist
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.
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Josh Blue
The more I move on stage, the more people are just drawn to the movement. The way that I walk and my gait - it's very eye catching. And the way my hand hooks and moves on its own - it's almost hypnotic.
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Alfred Adler
Austrian Psychologist
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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Katherine Waterston
British Actress
I was devastated when they stopped making sailors' pants with bell bottoms. There's something sort of spirited about the way they affected a man's gait. They project something good-natured.
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Sara Cox
English Entertainer
I can't do heels - I look like a cowboy in drag. I've a terrible gait, and I'm more at home in wellies, riding boots or trainers. With my dad being a farmer, I was raised in a welly.
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Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Elie Metchnikoff
Russian Scientist
The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Quote examples
Henry Ford
American Businessman
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Quote examples
LZ Granderson
American Journalist
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.
Quote examples
Josh Blue
The more I move on stage, the more people are just drawn to the movement. The way that I walk and my gait - it's very eye catching. And the way my hand hooks and moves on its own - it's almost hypnotic.
Quote examples
Alfred Adler
Austrian Psychologist
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Quote examples
Katherine Waterston
British Actress
I was devastated when they stopped making sailors' pants with bell bottoms. There's something sort of spirited about the way they affected a man's gait. They project something good-natured.
Quote examples
Sara Cox
English Entertainer
I can't do heels - I look like a cowboy in drag. I've a terrible gait, and I'm more at home in wellies, riding boots or trainers. With my dad being a farmer, I was raised in a welly.
Quote examples
Walter Cronkite
American Journalist
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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