: on horseback
: given without thorough consideration
a horseback opinion
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Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
And this happened after the penniless Abigail was obliged to take an almost three-hundred-mile solo horseback journey to be reunited with her younger children, from whom Asa had arranged to separate her.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The cookbook author rang in her 83rd birthday on Saturday, Aug. 3, with Snoop Dogg at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where the duo attended the equestrian team dressage event — and dressed impeccably for the horseback riding competition.
—Miles Berry, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
The 40-member Teton County Search and Rescue team is skilled in all sorts of rescue—everything from horseback riding to snowmobiling to caving to swiftwater.
—Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
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Noun
In reality, the symbolic imagery of horseback heroism, so often associated with solitary cowboys and gunslingers, owes its existence to the complex, multicultural history of cattle ranching in the United States.
—Essence, 2 Sep. 2024
And this happened after the penniless Abigail was obliged to take an almost three-hundred-mile solo horseback journey to be reunited with her younger children, from whom Asa had arranged to separate her.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
The cookbook author rang in her 83rd birthday on Saturday, Aug. 3, with Snoop Dogg at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where the duo attended the equestrian team dressage event — and dressed impeccably for the horseback riding competition.
—Miles Berry, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
The 40-member Teton County Search and Rescue team is skilled in all sorts of rescue—everything from horseback riding to snowmobiling to caving to swiftwater.
—Maggie Slepian, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Horseback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horseback. Accessed 30 Sep. 2024.
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horseback
1 of 2 noun
horse·back
ˈhȯrs-ˌbak 
: the back of a horse
horseback
2 of 2 adverb
: on horseback
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