: on horseback
: given without thorough consideration
a horseback opinion
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Eric Andersson, People.com, 18 June 2025
While both events will include a military flypast, Trooping the Color offers a more old-fashioned sense of pageantry with those soldiers on horseback, dressed in brightly colored ceremonial uniforms and elaborate headgear.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
Lisa Prevost, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
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Noun
Reeve died from heart failure in 2004, nine years after a horseback riding accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.
—Eric Andersson, People.com, 18 June 2025
While both events will include a military flypast, Trooping the Color offers a more old-fashioned sense of pageantry with those soldiers on horseback, dressed in brightly colored ceremonial uniforms and elaborate headgear.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 June 2025
Adjective
Horseback riders share the trails with hikers at Brett Woods, a 185-acre conservation area.
—Lisa Prevost, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2017
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“Horseback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horseback. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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horseback
1 of 2 noun
horse·back
ˈhȯrs-ˌbak 
: the back of a horse
horseback
2 of 2 adverb
: on horseback
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