1874 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 22/1 But let a non-riding reformer get up..and suggest that the rights of tenant-farmers have long enough lain at the mercy of their landlord and his fox-hunting friends,..and then see how his brother farmers will second his efforts.

1895 Harper's Mag. Mar. 510/2 Up to this time fox-hunting per se had been the raison d'être of the Elk Ridge Club, but an increasing demand by the non-riding element led to the move into its present home.

1958 C. N. Parkinson Evol. Polit. Thought i. iii. 51 If modern drivers of tanks still insist upon their theoretical status as cavalrymen, the riding boot played a still greater part among the non-riding adherents of Mussolini and Hitler.

1985 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 45 205 One must not confuse the non-riding versions of the game derived from polo with the ‘kick-ball’ game.

1995 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 22 55 To the nonriding citizen the biker appears to be a biker just like any other, and their responses run a gamut from hostility to fear.