on horseback
idiom
: on the back of a horse : by riding a horse
Before the invention of the automobile, people often traveled on horseback.
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Trump’s motorcade from Qatar’s Doha airport was flanked by bright red Tesla cybertrucks and riders on horseback.
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 16 May 2025
Here he is known for traveling the region’s mountains and coast for long hours by car, and occasionally on horseback, and for his forceful sermons in fluent Spanish.
—Marco Garro, New York Times, 12 May 2025
But Concrete Cowboy’s Western bonafides go further than simply having characters riding on horseback.
—Sezin Devi Keohler, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Contrast them with Cyrus Dallin’s statue of a non-specific Plains Indian figure on horseback on the lawn.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
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Natasha Turak, CNBC, 16 May 2025
Here he is known for traveling the region’s mountains and coast for long hours by car, and occasionally on horseback, and for his forceful sermons in fluent Spanish.
—Marco Garro, New York Times, 12 May 2025
But Concrete Cowboy’s Western bonafides go further than simply having characters riding on horseback.
—Sezin Devi Keohler, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Contrast them with Cyrus Dallin’s statue of a non-specific Plains Indian figure on horseback on the lawn.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
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“On horseback.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20horseback. Accessed 21 Jun. 2025.
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