Usually means: Riding on the back of a horse.
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  1. horseback: Merriam-Webster
  2. horseback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horseback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horseback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. horseback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Horseback, horseback: Wordnik
  7. horseback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. horseback: Wiktionary
  9. horseback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. horseback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. horseback: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Horseback, horseback: Dictionary.com
  13. horseback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Horseback (Comanche), Horseback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Horseback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. horseback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. horseback: Rhymezone
  18. Horseback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. horseback: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. horseback: FreeDictionary.org
  21. horseback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. horseback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. horseback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. horseback: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (horseback)

▸ noun:  (usually with on, upon, etc.) The back of a horse.
▸ noun:  (countable) A ridge of sand, gravel, and boulders.
▸ adverb:  On the back of a horse.

Similar:
donkeyback, back, unicornback, ponyback, assback, road, cowback, horsing, backie, muleback, more...

Opposite:
on foot, walking, pedestrian

Types:
English, Western, Dressage, Jumping, Eventing, Racing, Gaited, Pony, Draft, more...

Phrases:
on horseback, horseback riding, ride horseback, horseback rider, angels on horseback, more...

Adjectives:
ridden, therapeutic, long, much, little, constant, general, bare, day, only, famous

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Similar:
donkeyback, back, unicornback, ponyback, assback, road, cowback, horsing, backie, muleback, more...

Opposite:
on foot, walking, pedestrian

Types:
English, Western, Dressage, Jumping, Eventing, Racing, Gaited, Pony, Draft, more...

Phrases:
on horseback, horseback riding, ride horseback, horseback rider, angels on horseback, Devils on horseback, man on horseback, men on horseback, made a right turn on horseback, athletes on horseback, more...

Adjectives:
ridden, therapeutic, long, much, little, constant, general, bare, day, only, famous

Colors:
    brown,     chestnut,     bay,     black,     gray, more...



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