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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#m1)

2) A passenger on a bus or train (mostly American). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x1)
- Every bike rider should wear a helmet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x2)
- Slow down when you pass a horse and rider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x3)
- My brother is a fast rider on his scooter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x4)
- The bus had only three riders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x5)
- The rider pulled the reins to stop the horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x6)
- Riders must stop at the red light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x7)
- All around were graves, and the rider found he had a gravestone under him! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/17/)
- [Many cycling crashes happen when a car turns across a rider or a parked car's door opens suddenly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/20/)
- [Professional bull riders need to stay on for eight seconds; nobody rides a bucking bull for ten minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays/20/)
- [Le maillot jaune is the yellow jersey worn by the rider leading the whole race, not a team colour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/14/)
- [If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.