trotar
Spanish, verb/tɾoˈtaɾ/
trotar is spelled T-R-O-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 40,167th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trotar is a Spanish verb meaning “to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Moverse hacia adelante haciendo pequeños saltos cayendo con los pies alternados, es decir, corriendo, pero de…”.
What does trotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to trot (to move at a gait between a walk and a canter)
- 2
to jog
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Moverse hacia adelante haciendo pequeños saltos cayendo con los pies alternados, es decir, corriendo, pero de forma más suave y lenta. 2. Dicho de un caballo: caminar acelerado, moviendo a un tiempo pie y mano contrapuestos, arrojando sobre ellos el cuerpo con ímpetu.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of trotar
- troto first-person present singular
- troté first-person preterite singular
- trotado participle past
- trotando gerund
- trotada feminine participle past
- trotados masculine participle past
- trotadas feminine participle past
- trotas indicative informal present
- trotás indicative informal present
- trota indicative present singular
- trotamos first-person indicative plural
- trotáis indicative plural present
- trotan indicative plural present
- trotaba first-person imperfect indicative
- trotabas imperfect indicative second-person
- trotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- trotabais imperfect indicative plural
- trotaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trotar?
- /tɾoˈtaɾ/
- [t̪ɾoˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to trotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is trotar in Spanish?
trotar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).