Crossword clues for riding
riding
- Mounted equipment to limit noise
- Papers seized by gang in part of Yorkshire
- Division of Yorkshire
- Travelling on horseback
- Not working
- On horseback
- Kind of crop or mower
- Equestrian activity
- Word before hood or shotgun
- On a bus
- On a bike
- Kind of mower
- In a cab, say
- Horsemanship — once a third part of Yorkshire
- Going by bus
- Equestrian's forte
- Emulating cavalry members
- Harassing
- Hood lead-in
- Dependent (on)
- Lie moored or anchored
- Copulate with, as of animals
- Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
- Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- Sit on and control a vehicle
- Have certain properties when driven
- Be sustained or supported as if floating
- Harass with persistent criticism or carping
- Move like a floating object
- Continue undisturbed and without interference
- Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
- Climb up on the body
- Kind of habit
- Mounted detective appears in circus
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one of the three districts into which Yorkshire was divided, late 13c., from late Old English *þriðing, a relic of Viking rule, from Old Norse ðriðjungr "third part," from ðriði "third" (see third). The initial consonant merged with final consonant of preceding north, west, or east.
c.1300, verbal noun from ride (v.). Meaning "teasing, annoying" is from 1927. Riding-hood, worn by women when riding or exposed to weather, is from mid-15c.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A path cut through woodland. 2 The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion. 3 (context obsolete English) A festival procession. vb. (present participle of ride English) Etymology 2
n. 1 historically, one of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern county of England. 2 (context Canada English) electoral district or constituency.
WordNet
n. riding a horse as a sport [syn: horseback riding, equitation]
riding a horse as a means of transportation [syn: horseback riding]
adj. traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.; "the riding public welcomed the new buses" [syn: awheel]
Wikipedia
A riding is an administrative jurisdiction or electoral district, particularly in several current or former Commonwealth countries.
Riding is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Douglas Riding, Australian air marshal
- Joanna Riding, English actress
- Laura Riding (1901–1991), American poet and writer
Riding is a homonym of two distinct English words:
From the word ride:
- Equestrianism, riding a horse
- Riding animal, an animal bred or trained for riding
- Riding hall, a building designed for indoor horse riding
- Ridin', a song by Chamillionaire
From Old English *þriðing:
- Riding (country subdivision), an administrative division of a county, or similar district
- Electoral district (Canada), a Canadian term for an electoral district
- Riding association, Canadian political party organization at the riding level
- Riding officer, a name once used for customs officials who patrolled for smugglers on beaches and other informal landing spots
- Common Riding, an event celebrated in some Scottish towns to commemorate the guarding the boundaries of the town's common land by local men
Usage examples of "riding".
Why, Abigail could best nearly any boy in the county at what were deemed masculine pursuits: hunting, riding and climbing trees.
I particularly liked riding there, and it was a good place for Abseil, except that the uphill finish could find him out.
By noon he was riding a farmland road where the acequias carried the water down along the foot-trodden selvedges of the fields and he stood the horse to water and walked it up and back in the shade of a cottonwood grove to cool it.
Would it stay obstinately still or would I feel it riding up the side of the acetabulum on the way to its proper home?
Caroline and Amelia had been shocked when James brought her home, riding before him on his horse with Acorn trailing behind.
WAS NEXT MORNING, about an hour before dawn, that I found myself, against my better judgment, riding escort for Miz Lewis as we headed off into the far western acreage of the Cottonwood ranch.
Bay felt a shiver of foreboding when she saw Sloan riding toward the adobe house.
Two Afghanis escorted a smaller figure who had been, unlike him, riding free.
You have to be somewhat of an aficionado to appreciate riding a bike--even a Harley--in this kind of weather.
There were so many packs of two-legs about, afoot and riding the hard-footed four-legs, that they could not say whether any they knew of were the one he sought.
Perrin recognized ageless Aes Sedai faces even before he picked out Verin and Alanna, both riding to the rear of the women.
At once the riding became easier, for the moment a gust of wind hit the machine on one side, the elevators and ailerons shifted and counteracted its uneven effect.
Seregil proved as fine a wayfaring companion as Alec could have hoped for, happy to fill the long hours of riding with tales, songs, and legends.
Seregil agreed, stealing another concerned look at Alec riding stiffly beside him.
She could see Alured riding behind his soldiers as they tried to stop those in the rear.