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For the verb: "to stride"

Simple Past:	strode
Past Participle:	stridden

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stride/strʌɪd/

▶verb (past strode; past part. stridden)

1 walk with long, decisive steps.

2 (stride across/over) cross (an obstacle) with one long step.

3 literary bestride.

▶noun

1 a long, decisive step.
■ the length of a step or manner of taking steps.

2 a step in progress towards an aim.
■ (one's stride) a good or regular rate of progress, especially after a slow start.

3 (strides) Brit. informal trousers.

4 [as modifier] denoting a rhythmic style of jazz piano playing in which the left hand alternately plays single bass notes on the downbeat and chords an octave higher on the upbeat.

– phrases
take something in one's stride (US also take something in stride) deal with something difficult in a calm way.

– derivatives
strider noun.

– origin OE stride (n.) ‘single long step’, strīdan (v.) ‘stand or walk with the legs wide apart’, prob. from a Gmc base meaning ‘strive, quarrel’.

'stride' also found in these Oxford entries:

bestride - enjambement - gallop - lope - stalk - strode - untracked

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