RIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riding mean? 

• RIDING (noun)
  The noun 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: RIDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Travel by being carried on horseback

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

horseback riding; riding

Hypernyms ("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 "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)

 Context examples 

Rotten Row means 'Route de Roi', or the king's way, but now it's more like a riding school than anything else.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Once, as they marched, they saw upon the further bank of the river a body of French men-at-arms, riding very swiftly in the direction of Villefranche.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seems to be riding for a fall.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient avoid certain places or situations that make him/her more nervous such as riding in the car, meeting with friends, or being in crowds?

(NPI - Avoid Certain Places or Situations That Make Him/Her More Nervous, NCI Thesaurus)

All that he asked was done, and soon he was riding on his three-legged horse.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Dorothy found herself riding easily between two of the biggest Monkeys, one of them the King himself.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He got horses for us; and Steerforth, who knew everything, gave me lessons in riding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And I am quite convinced that your being with Mrs. Norris will be as good for your mind as riding has been for your health, and as much for your ultimate happiness too.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We crossed John’s Common together, and so past Ridden’s Farm, meeting only one or two riding officers upon the way.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)