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present participle and gerund of stride examples
countable and uncountable, plural stridings
The act of one who strides; a long step. quotations examples
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!
1804, Thomas Brown, Poems, page 191
(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. examples