Horses have three gaits: Walking, trotting and galloping.

But if you take my voice," said the little mermaid, "what have I left?" "Your beautiful form," said the witch, "your gliding gait, and your speaking eyes; with these you ought surely to be able to bewitch a human heart."

Two gentlemen were awaiting us in the station—the one a tall, fair man with lion-like hair and beard and curiously penetrating light blue eyes; the other a small, alert person, very neat and dapper, in a frock-coat and gaiters, with trim little side-whiskers and an eye-glass.

You will keep your gliding gait, no dancer will rival you, but every step you take will be as if you were treading upon sharp knives, so sharp as to draw blood.

From a distance, his gait reminded me of my grandfather.

He wore gaiters, and carried a heavy stick with a knob to it.

For the past few years, teenagers who imitate overweight American rappers have been walking like inverted pendulums, swinging from left to right, which is the only way forward if you weigh over two hundred and sixty pounds, but completely ineffective if you are a scrawny teenager weighing half of that, since most of the energy is wasted on side steps, not to mention the sheer absurdity of that swinging gait.

Tom insisted he hadn't been drinking, but his slurred speech and unsteady gait gave him away.

He began to mimic the speech and gait of persons in the street.

But the extraordinary homeliness of her gait and manner would have eclipsed any face in the world.