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RIDE HORSEBACK
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ride on horseback
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "ride horseback" is one way to...):
ride; sit (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)
Domain category:
horseback riding; riding (travel by being carried on horseback)
equitation; horseback riding; riding (the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ride horseback"):
prance (ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward)
canter (ride at a canter)
gallop (ride at a galloping pace)
post (ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait)
trot (ride at a trot)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
horseback riding (travel by being carried on horseback)
horseback riding (the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements)
