riding horse

1. 1.

   a lightweight horse kept for riding only

   Synonymssaddle horsemount

   Broaderhorse

   Narrowerremountpalfreywarhorseprancerhackcow ponyquarter horseMorganTennessee walkerAmerican saddle horse

Questions about riding horse

What does riding horse mean?

riding horse means "a lightweight horse kept for riding only".

What is another word for riding horse?

Close synonyms include saddle horse, mount. 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 riding horse a common word?

riding horse 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.