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AMBLE [3 records]

Record 1 2012-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

The gait in which the horse moves both legs of one side together, then the legs of the other side.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Allure du cheval qui déplace, en alternance, ses deux membres de gauche puis ses deux de droite.

CONT

En course, en Amérique du Nord surtout, l'amble devient une allure à quatre temps (appelée parfois amble volant), autrement [dit] c'est une allure rapide et confortable pour le cavalier qui doit parcourir de longues distances.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
DEF

Paso de las caballerías en el cual mueven a un tiempo la mano y el pie del mismo lado.

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Record 2 2004-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

To move, as a horse, at the pace, by lifting the feet on the same side synchronously.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 3 2003-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Science
CONT

The movements of animals, quadruped and multiped, are crosswise, or in diagonals, and their equilibrium in standing posture is maintained crosswise; and it is always the limb on the right-hand side that is the first to move. The lion, however, and the two species of camels, both the Bactrian and the Arabian, progress by an amble; and the action so called is when the animal never overpasses the right with the left, but always follows close upon it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zootechnie
DEF

Pour le déplacement d'un animal, allure à deux temps (trot) caractérisée par le déplacement simultané d'un bipède latéral (membres antérieur et postérieur droits ou gauches).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Zootecnia
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