HORSEBACK RIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horseback riding mean? 

• HORSEBACK RIDING (noun)
  The noun HORSEBACK RIDING has 2 senses:

1. the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

2. travel by being carried on horseback

  Familiarity information: HORSEBACK RIDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSEBACK RIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

equitation; horseback riding; riding

Hypernyms ("horseback 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 "horseback riding"):

equestrian sport (a sport that tests horsemanship)

pony-trekking (a sport in which people ride across country on ponies)

Derivation:

ride horseback (ride on horseback)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Travel by being carried on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

horseback riding; riding

Hypernyms ("horseback riding" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Domain member category:

gallop (ride at a galloping pace)

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)

canter (ride at a cantering pace)

canter (ride at a canter)

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)

prance (cause (a horse) to bound spring forward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horseback 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 horseback (ride on horseback)

 Context examples 

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)