gait
noun/ɡeɪt/
Frequency rank: #11,886 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A person's or animal's manner of walking or running.
Example sentence
The doctor observed the patient's gait carefully as he walked down the hallway.
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