riding

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of going on horseback, or in a carriage, etc. See ride, verb Specifically A festival procession.
• noun Same as ride, 3.
• noun One of the three districts, each anciently under the government of a reeve, into which the county of York, in England, is divided.

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

• noun One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.
• adjective Employed to travel; traveling.
• adjective Used for riding on.
• adjective Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding
• adjective [Obs. Eng.] One of the “six clerks” formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery.
• adjective A kind of cloak with a hood.
• adjective an instructor in horsemanship.
• adjective (Pros.) the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales.
• adjective a school or place where the art of riding is taught.
• noun The act or state of one who rides.
• noun obsolete A festival procession.
• noun Same as Ride, n., 3.
• noun engraving A district in charge of an excise officer.

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

• verb Present participle of ride.
• noun A path cut through woodland.
• noun obsolete A festival procession.
• noun Historically, one of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties.
• noun Canada Electoral district or constituency.

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

• noun the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
• noun travel by being carried on horseback