When you're astride something, you have one leg on each of it. A typical rider on a horse is astride the horse.
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Adverb
with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair"
Adverb
with the legs stretched far apart
adv.
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback;
with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Astride
Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade.
Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose.
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.
Usage Examples
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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