Riding : adj : 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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Rode_(r[=o]d)_({Rid">Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. Rode (r[=o]d) ({Rid [r[i^]d],
Ridden({Rid">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
byRiding : 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Riding : \Rid"ing\, n.
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, n., 3. --Sir P. Sidney.
4. A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Riding : \Rid"ing\ (r[imac]d"[i^]ng), n. [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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Riding : \Rid"ing\, a.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trithing \Tri"thing\, n. [See Ist Riding.]
One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now
called riding. [Written also riding.] --Blackstone.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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RIDING, Eng. law. An ascertained district, part of a county. This term has
the same meaning in Yorkshire which division has in Lincolnshire. 4 T. R.
459.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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