Riding

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
  • 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

It may also refer to:

  • Douglas Riding, Australian air marshal
  • Joanna Riding, English actress

Famous quotes containing the word riding:

    Whenever the moon and stars are set,
    Whenever the wind is high,
    All night long in the dark and wet,
    A man goes riding by.
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    Strong Men, riding horses. In the West
    On a range five hundred files. A Thousand. Reaching
    From dawn to sunset.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    They’ll stone you when you’re riding in your car.
    They’ll stone you when you’re playing your guitar.
    Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
    Everybody must get stoned.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)