Definition of: stride

(strīd) noun
1. A long and sweeping or measured step; also, the space passed over by such a step.
2. In animal locomotion, an act of progressive motion, completed when all the feet are returned to the same relative positions they occupied at the beginning of the movement.
3. A stage of progress.
—to hit one's stride To attain one's normal speed.
—to make rapid strides To make quick progress.
—to take (something) in one's stride To do (something) without undue effort as part of one's normal activity.
—v. strode, strid·den, strid·ing v.i.
1. To walk with long steps, as from haste or pride.
2. Archaic To straddle.
—v.t.
3. To walk through, along, etc., with long steps.
4. To pass over with a single stride.
5. To straddle; bestride, [OE strīdan stride]
—strid′er noun