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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective On a horse or other animal with no saddle.
  • adverb & adjective Vulgar Slang Without wearing a condom.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Using or performing on a barebacked horse: as, a bareback rider.
  • On a barebacked horse: as, to ride bareback.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Without a saddle.
  • adverb slang Without a condom.
  • verb intransitive, slang To have sex without a condom.
  • verb intransitive, slang To have, usually male to male, anal sex without a condom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective riding without a saddle
  • adverb without a saddle

Etymologies

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Back-formation from barebacking.

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Examples

  • Some sites are used specifically to arrange unprotected - or "bareback" - encounters between groups of men.

    Archive 2004-04-18 Laban 2004

  • Some sites are used specifically to arrange unprotected - or "bareback" - encounters between groups of men.

    UK Commentators Laban 2004

  • My bareback was a mare named Kattle Kate owned by Flying U Rodeo, one of about forty stock contractors that had animals at the NFR.

    King of the Cowboys Ty Murray 2003

  • Big-name bareback: The bareback riding portion of Saturday included some big names, and they responded with rides that delighted the crowd.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories 2010

  • And now some of these "barebackers" have started calling bareback sex "natural sex," implying that it is the safe sexers who are engaged in unnatural behavior by wearing condoms.

    New York Press 2009

  • I guess now going "bareback" can be as deadly on the bike as it can be in the bedroom.

    Cycling on Stage: Priming the Pumps of Legitimacy BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Since I've decided to ritually burn up my SKS fenders and go 'bareback', I'll have to palp those rain chaps.

    Individualism: Innovation or Absurdity? BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • He is quite happy to ride his good lady wife "bareback" as he states "I can't stand condoms", sure in the knowledge that we will cover the expense of yet another baby.

    Archive 2008-02-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • The question is, does images of men having "bareback" (unsafe, no condoms) sex with each other cause people to fetishize and long to also engage in such behavior, or is it a safe sexual outlet to watch sexual behavior that the viewer (or voyeur) will not engage in, but is still aroused by?

    Archive 2005-08-01 Ron Buckmire 2005

  • The question is, does images of men having "bareback" (unsafe, no condoms) sex with each other cause people to fetishize and long to also engage in such behavior, or is it a safe sexual outlet to watch sexual behavior that the viewer (or voyeur) will not engage in, but is still aroused by?

    Spitting Hairs: A Porn Dilemma Ron Buckmire 2005

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