(~s, striding, strode)
1.
If you ~ somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps.
They were joined by a newcomer who came striding across a field...
He turned abruptly and strode off down the corridor.
VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv
2.
A ~ is a long step which you take when you are walking or running.
With every ~, runners hit the ground with up to five times their body-weight...
He walked with long ~s.
N-COUNT
3.
Someone’s ~ is their way of walking with long steps.
He lengthened his ~ to keep up with her.
N-SING: usu poss N
4.
If you make ~s in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it.
The country has made enormous ~s politically but not economically.
N-COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N
5.
If you get into your ~ or hit your ~, you start to do something easily and confidently, after being slow and uncertain.
The campaign is just getting into its ~...
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your ~, you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in ~.
Beth was struck by how Naomi took the mistake in her ~.
PHRASE: V inflects