striding
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English strydyng, stridende, strydand, from Old English strīdende, from Proto-Germanic *strīdandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *strīdaną (“to endeavour; stand tall; withstand; take long steps”), equivalent to stride + -ing.
Verb[edit]
striding
- present participle and gerund of stride
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English strydynge, equivalent to stride + -ing.
Noun[edit]
striding (countable and uncountable, plural stridings)
- The act of one who strides; a long step.
- 1804, Thomas Brown, Poems, page 191:
- How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!
- (skiing, uncountable) A technique for propelling forward that appears similar to walking, where a foot slides forward on the opposite side of a pole being planted to provide a location to apply force.
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