riding
noun /ˈraɪdɪŋ/
/ˈraɪdɪŋ/
- (British English also horse riding)(North American English also horseback riding)[uncountable] the sport or activity of riding horses
- I'm taking riding lessons.
- riding boots
- (British English) to go riding
- (North American English) to go horseback riding
- We went horse riding.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- horse
- horseback
- go
- boots
- breeches
- crop
- …
- Riding[countable] one of the three former parts of the English county of Yorkshire called the East Riding, the North Riding and the West Riding
- (Canadian English) [countable] a district that elects its own representative to a state or national government
- A by-election was called for the Ontario riding of Whitby-Oshawa.
see also trials riding
Word OriginFrom an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘one third’.