Definition of "strider" [strider]

• One who strides. (noun)
• An insect called the water strider. (noun)

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• "He is a pattern of indentations on the surface of the liquid then the outline of a water strider then an oval form the inside of which is an arrangement of gears and levers through which pass tiny white ribbons covered in numbers."
• "Kelly is a long strider who doesn't explode off the line, but when he hits second gear, he shocks defenders by covering large chunks of yardage per step."
• "If ever any shoe was the embodiment of all our feminine contradictions this tall strider was it, and now we're on the hunt."