rider

«rider» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who rides a horse, a bike, a motorbike or a scooter — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a rider, riders)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who rides a horse, a bike, a motorbike or a scooter. tree →

2) A passenger on a bus or train (mostly American). tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and road safety, bike riders wear helmets, use lights and follow road rules; horse riders wear hard hats. In stories, a rider may gallop through the night. Phrases: bike rider, horse rider, a good rider, motorbike rider.

examples

• The rider fell off her horse but was not hurt. tree →
• Every bike rider should wear a helmet. tree →
• Slow down when you pass a horse and rider. tree →
• My brother is a fast rider on his scooter. tree →
• The bus had only three riders. tree →
• The rider pulled the reins to stop the horse. tree →
• Riders must stop at the red light. tree →
• All around were graves, and the rider found he had a gravestone under him! tree →

note

Countable: a rider, riders. From the verb "ride" (ride, rode, ridden). Safety: riders should be seen, so wear bright clothes and use lights at night. Drivers must pass riders slowly and with lots of space.

In the corpora

• Scooter riders need a helmet too.
• Many cycling crashes happen when a car turns across a rider or a parked car's door opens suddenly.
• Professional bull riders need to stay on for eight seconds; nobody rides a bucking bull for ten minutes.
• Le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey worn by the rider leading the whole race, not a team colour.
• If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rider» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.