RIDE HORSEBACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Ride on horseback

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "ride horseback" is one way to...):

ride; sit (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)

Domain category:

horseback riding; riding (travel by being carried on horseback)

equitation; horseback riding; riding (the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ride horseback"):

prance (ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward)

canter (ride at a canter)

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)

trot (ride at a trot)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

horseback riding (travel by being carried on horseback)

horseback riding (the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements)