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RIDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Travel by being carried on horseback
Synonyms:
horseback riding; riding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("riding" is a kind of...):
travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)
Domain member category:
trot (ride at a trot)
extend; gallop (cause to move at full gallop)
post (ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait)
gallop (ride at a galloping pace)
canter (ride at a cantering pace)
canter (ride at a canter)
prance (cause (a horse) to bound spring forward)
prance (ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward)
ride horseback (ride on horseback)
dismount; get down; get off; light; unhorse (alight from (a horse))
outride (ride better, faster, or further than)
override (ride (a horse) too hard)
ride; sit (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riding"):
bronco busting (breaking a bronco to saddle)
endurance riding (riding for long hours over long distances)
pack riding (riding with a pack)
trail riding (riding along a roughly blazed path)
Derivation:
ride (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
Synonyms:
equitation; horseback riding; riding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("riding" is a kind of...):
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Domain member category:
ride horseback (ride on horseback)
prance (ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward)
prance (cause (a horse) to bound spring forward)
canter (ride at a cantering pace)
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)
extend; gallop (cause to move at full gallop)
trot (ride at a trot)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riding"):
equestrian sport (a sport that tests horsemanship)
pony-trekking (a sport in which people ride across country on ponies)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb ride
Context examples:
At the same time I knew that Jonathan was not far off; looking around I saw on the north side of the coming party two other men, riding at break-neck speed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mercedes was riding the loaded sled.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Amongst the objects in the scene, they soon discovered an animated one; it was a man on horseback riding towards them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I described, as well as I could, our way of riding; the shape and use of a bridle, a saddle, a spur, and a whip; of harness and wheels.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Riding a bicycle for transportation or recreation.
(Bicycling, NCI Thesaurus)
The volunteers, 29 men and 31 women, engaged in a variety of physical activities, including walking or running on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike.
(Fitness Trackers Bad at Measuring Calories Burned, Study Says, VOA)
It had been deserted when I left it, but now I saw a cyclist riding down it from the opposite direction to that in which I had come.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was in connection with the riding, that White Fang achieved one other mode of expression—remarkable in that he did it but twice in all his life.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Scientists think that dust-trapped water vapor may be riding them like an elevator to space, where solar radiation breaks apart their molecules.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
When I'm in Parlyment and riding in my coach, I don't want none of these sea-lawyers in the cabin a-coming home, unlooked for, like the devil at prayers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
