stride

1. 1.

   walk with long steps

   “He strode confidently across the hall”

   Broaderwalk
2. 2.

   cover or traverse by taking long steps

   “She strode several miles towards the woods”

   Broadertraverse

Other forms of stride

plural

strides·

past tense or participle

stridden

past tense or participle

strode

present participle

striding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stride

What does stride mean?

stride means "a step in walking or running". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stride?

stride has 1 syllable: stride. In IPA it is /ˈstɹaɪd/.

What is another word for stride?

Close synonyms include pace, tread, footstep, pace, step. 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 stride a common word?

stride is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with stride?

1 word rhymes with stride. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.