gallopade

noun

1. (obsolete)gallop

   “At the same instant the sounding gallopade of hoofs came from the tranquil roadway leading to the stables.”

2. A type of dance, also known as the galop.
3. The music for this kind of dance.

   “They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade, the favourite ditty of "The Spotted Cow".”

verb

1. To gallop, as on horseback.
2. To perform the dance called gallopade.