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# stride

«stride» in Mova's school dictionary: **to walk with long, quick, confident steps** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stride, strides); verb (stride, strides, strode, stridden, striding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stride is to walk with long, quick, confident steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#m1)

2) A stride is one long step, or the length of a step. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#m2)

3) «Make strides» or «make great strides» means to make good progress, to get better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#m3)

4) «Take it in your stride» means to deal with a problem calmly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and running, «stride length» is how far one step reaches; athletes lengthen their stride to run faster. In maths and science you can measure a distance by counting strides — a non-standard unit. In stories «he strode into the room» shows confidence or anger. Teachers write in reports «you have made great strides in reading». Phrases: «get into your stride», «take something in your stride», «make strides».

### examples

- He strode across the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x1)
- The giant took huge strides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x2)
- Measure the classroom in strides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x3)
- Her stride is longer than mine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x4)
- You've made great strides in maths this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x5)
- She took the bad news in her stride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x6)
- The runner got into her stride after the first lap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x7)
- In two strides he reached the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stride/#x8)

### note

Irregular: stride, strode, stridden. «Strode» is the past (he strode), «stridden» is rare. A stride is a long step; a «step» can be short. Maths: if one stride is 1 metre, 25 strides ≈ 25 metres.

### In the corpora

- [In stride the four friends: Badger with his great stick, Mole shouting his war-cry «A Mole!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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