horseback
- adverb
- /ˈhɔrsˌbæk/
:
a caballo
- And in front of the temple was a statue of Caesar on horseback in a position recalling Alexander the Great.
Their enemy rides in formation on horseback.
- Their enemy rides in formation on horseback.
- Armies would fight on horseback with swords and and and bows and arrows and things like that.
- Well, if anybody had any doubts, they didn't have any doubts after those first special operations teams went into Afghanistan on horseback.
- Well, God, do a little bit of horseback riding and swim in the pond.
- Like don't go horseback riding, don't go zip lining.
- In fact, Alexander was a horseback rider.
- You see them in a yacht, they're steering a yacht, they're on horseback, they're riding their horse.
Examples
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We could, we could hunt them from horseback with a spear.
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OK, when you need to send in a bunch of guys on horseback to come in for the rescue, you send in the cavalry.
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After them come the scholars themselves, mounted on horseback with these fabulous black hats that have these wings at the side.
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Armies would fight on horseback with swords and and and bows and arrows and things like that.
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The cowboy rode horseback across the open plains, searching for lost cattle.
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She learned to jump fences while riding horseback during summer camp.
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He enjoyed exploring the forest horseback with his friends on the weekend.
Synonyms
To ride on a horse
Riding on the back of a horse
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horseback as an adverb comes from the same idea of being 'on the horse's back' — that is, riding the horse. So if someone travels horseback, they go somewhere while riding a horse.