- stride
- [[t]stra͟ɪd[/t]]
strides, striding, strode1) VERB If you stride somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps.
[V prep/adv] They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field...
[V prep/adv] He turned abruptly and strode off down the corridor.
2) N-COUNT A stride is a long step which you take when you are walking or running.With every stride, runners hit the ground with up to five times their body-weight...
He walked with long strides.
3) N-SING: usu poss N Someone's stride is their way of walking with long steps.He lengthened his stride to keep up with her.
4) N-COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N If you make strides in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it.The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically.
5) PHRASE: V inflects If you get into your stride or hit your stride, you start to do something easily and confidently, after being slow and uncertain.The campaign is just getting into its stride...
He's still learning and when he hits his stride, he'll be unstoppable.
6) PHRASE: V inflects In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your stride, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in stride.Beth was struck by how Naomi took the mistake in her stride.
English dictionary. 2008.
