in stride

1. 1.

   without losing equilibrium

   “she took all his criticism in stride”

   Synonymsin good spirits

Questions about in stride

What does in stride mean?

in stride means "without losing equilibrium".

What is another word for in stride?

Close synonyms include in good spirits. 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 in stride a common word?

in stride is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.