What is the correct sequence of a landing gear cycle?

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Landing gear cycling is about how the gear moves between extended and retracted positions under hydraulic control with doors and locks coordinating the sequence. The gear system is designed to move in a controlled order, not all at once, to avoid interference with doors and to maintain aircraft stability during the transition. In a typical setup with two main gears (and a nose gear), the actuators are sequenced so one main gear can retract while the other remains extended, at least for a moment. This creates a moment during the cycle when one gear is down and the other is up, which is a normal intermediate state of the cycle. After that, the second gear completes its motion and all gears are up. The other options imply all gears moving together or only one gear moving, which doesn’t reflect how the standard gear cycle actually progresses.