 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
riding
adjective: traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile
e.g.; "the riding public welcomed the new buses" [syn:
{awheel}]
noun
1: riding a horse as a sport [syn: {horseback riding}, {equitation}]
2: riding a horse as a means of transportation [syn: {horseback
riding}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, verb (used without an object) [imp. {Rode} (r[=o]d) ({Rid} [r[i^]d],
archaic); p. p. {Ridden}({Rid}, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Riding}.] [AS. r[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G.
reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][eth]a, Sw. rida, Dan.
ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word.
Cf. {Road}.]
1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. --Chaucer.
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop
after him. --Swift.
2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a
car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not
by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the
streets with trains of servants. --Macaulay.
3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
--Dryden.
4. To be supported in motion; to rest.
Strong as the exletree
On which heaven rides. --Shak.
On whose foolish honesty
My practices ride easy! --Shak.
5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
--Dryden.
6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle;
as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
{To ride easy} (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent
pitching or straining at the cables.
{To ride hard} (Naut.), to pitch violently.
{To ride out}.
(a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
(b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.]
{To ride to hounds}, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds
in hunting.
Syn: Drive.
Usage: {Ride}, {Drive}. Ride originally meant (and is so used
throughout the English Bible) to be carried on
horseback or in a vehicle of any kind. At present in
England, drive is the word applied in most cases to
progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park,
etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a
horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by
giving ''to travel on horseback'' as the leading sense
of ride; though he adds ''to travel in a vehicle'' as
a secondary sense. This latter use of the word still
occurs to some extent; as, the queen rides to
Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an
omnibus.
''Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord
Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that
morning. --W. Black.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riding \Rid"ing\, noun
1. The act or state of one who rides.
2. A festival procession. [Obs.]
When there any riding was in Cheap. --Chaucer.
3. Same as {Ride}, noun, 3. --Sir P. Sidney.
4. A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riding \Rid"ing\ (r[imac]d"[i^]ng), noun [For thriding, Icel.
[thorn]ri[eth]jungr the third part, fr. [thorn]ri[eth]i
third, akin to E. third. See {Third}.]
One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York,
in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a
reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West,
Riding. --Blackstone.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riding \Rid"ing\, adjective
1. Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. ''One
riding apparitor.'' --Ayliffe.
2. Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
3. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a
riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
{Riding clerk}.
(a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs.
Eng.]
(b) One of the ''six clerks'' formerly attached to the
English Court of Chancery.
{Riding hood}.
(a) A hood formerly worn by women when riding.
(b) A kind of cloak with a hood.
{Riding master}, an instructor in horsemanship.
{Riding rhyme} (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with
couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted
pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. --Dr. Guest.
{Riding school}, a school or place where the art of riding is
taught.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trithing \Tri"thing\, noun [See Ist {Riding}.]
One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now
called {riding}. [Written also {riding}.] --Blackstone.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "riding":
Kreis, anchorage, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement,
automobiling, bailiwick, bicycling, biking, bishopric, borough,
busing, canton, charivari, chuck, city, commune,
congressional district, constablewick, county, cycling,
departement, diocese, district, driving, duchy, electoral district,
electorate, equitation, government, hamlet, harborage, haven,
horseback riding, horsemanship, hundred, magistracy, metropolis,
metropolitan area, motorcycling, motoring, oblast, okrug, parish,
pedaling, port, precinct, principality, province, region, roads,
roadstead, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke,
stake, state, territory, town, township, village, wapentake,
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