on horseback
idiom
: on the back of a horse : by riding a horse
Before the invention of the automobile, people often traveled on horseback.
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There was also support to help ranchers add flags to fences to deter wolves and also to help fund monitoring of cattle, often on horseback.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
Prince William rode on horseback during the military parade and later joined Kate and the kids to watch a flypast by the Royal Air Force from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Getting to the top of the hill had taken about an hour on horseback, and, with the exception of a philosopher from U.C.L.A., who spent the ride explaining black holes to a ranch hand, most of the riders had trotted quietly in single file.
—Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
As a case study of moral injury, Hatch uses a 2021 incident in Del Rio when agents on horseback appeared in some viral photos to be whipping immigrants with their reins — which a federal investigation later determined hadn’t happened.
—Giovanna Dell’orto, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
Prince William rode on horseback during the military parade and later joined Kate and the kids to watch a flypast by the Royal Air Force from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Getting to the top of the hill had taken about an hour on horseback, and, with the exception of a philosopher from U.C.L.A., who spent the ride explaining black holes to a ranch hand, most of the riders had trotted quietly in single file.
—Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
As a case study of moral injury, Hatch uses a 2021 incident in Del Rio when agents on horseback appeared in some viral photos to be whipping immigrants with their reins — which a federal investigation later determined hadn’t happened.
—Giovanna Dell’orto, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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“On horseback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20horseback. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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