astride's Usage Examples:

Army's and 3rd Div.'s advance astride the Maritsa and Tunja on Oct.

In western civilization there is a traditional difference between the riding of men and women, in this particular, that men ride astride and women on a side-saddle.

By nightfall the situation was all in favour of the allies; for Grouchy was now actually outside the four Prussian corps, who were by this time concentrated astride the Dyle at Wavre.

His father lies on his deathbed and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear!

The divide between the rivers flowing west and those flowing east and north is very sharp in the southern Rocky Mountains, but there are two lakes, the Committee's Punch Bowl and Fortress Lake, right astride of it, sending their waters both east and west; and there is a mountain somewhat south of Fortress Lake whose melting snows drain in three directions into tributaries of the Columbia, the Saskatchewan and the Athabasca, so that they are distributed between the Pacific, the Atlantic (Hudson Bay) and the Arctic Oceans.

Owing to its position astride of the Alps, and so commanding the road across them, Tirol has often been the scene of sharp fighting.

Crouched astride a bike was a great place to think and he surely needed training with his July week in Iowa getting closer all the time.

Bavarian Reserve Corps astride the Scarpe and the II.

Of these forces, however, only those astride the Scarpe, i.e.

Riding astride is sometimes recommended for women.

Synonyms:

astraddle,