horseback rider

1. 1.

   a man skilled in equitation

   Synonymshorsemanequestrian

   Broaderrider

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Questions about horseback rider

What does horseback rider mean?

horseback rider means "a man skilled in equitation".

What is another word for horseback rider?

Close synonyms include horseman, equestrian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horseback rider a common word?

horseback rider is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.