verb
stride
stryd
verb
1
To walk with long, confident steps.
"She strode across the stage to collect her award."
"He strode into the meeting ten minutes late, unbothered."
noun
1
A single long step, or the length of one such step.
"He crossed the room in three strides."
"Her stride lengthened as she picked up the pace."
2
In computing, the gap between successive elements stored in memory, such as pixels in an image row.
"The image loader needed to account for the row stride when copying pixel data."
How to Use Stride
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTo walk with big, purposeful steps, or one of those steps itself.
Common mistake
The phrase "hit your stride" means to reach a comfortable, effective rhythm — it doesn't literally involve walking.
Common pairings
stride across
stride into
hit your stride
take something in stride
Word Forms
strode past tense, stridden past tense, strid past tense, strides plural, strides singular
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Etymology
From Old English stridan, related to words in other Germanic languages meaning "to fight" or "to stride" — the sense narrowed to walking with long steps.