transcription, транскрипция: [ straɪd ]
( strides, striding, strode)
1.
If you stride 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 stride is a long step which you take when you are walking or running.
With every stride, runners hit the ground with up to five times their body-weight...
He walked with long strides.
N-COUNT
3.
Someone’s stride is their way of walking with long steps.
He lengthened his stride to keep up with her.
N-SING : usu poss N
4.
If you make strides in something that you are doing, you make rapid progress in it.
The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically.
N-COUNT : usu pl , usu adj N
5.
If you get into your stride or hit your stride , you start to do something easily and confidently, after being slow and uncertain.
The campaign is just getting into its stride...
PHRASE : V inflects
6.
In British English, if you take a problem or difficulty in your stride , you deal with it calmly and easily. The American expression is take something in stride .
Beth was struck by how Naomi took the mistake in her stride.
PHRASE : V inflects