"horseback riding" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 骑行 騎行 | to ride (a bicycle, horse, motorbike etc) / cycling / horseback riding / motorbike riding |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 马上 馬上 | at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force) | syn | |
| 解 | acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old) / variant of 懈[xie4] and 邂[xie4] (old) | syn | |
| 走马观花 走馬觀花 | lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom) / a fleeting glance in passing / fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation / to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information | ||
| 马靴 馬靴 | riding boots | ||
| 马刺 馬刺 | spur (on riding boots) | ||
| 走马 走馬 | to ride (a horse) / to go on horseback | ||
| 马步 馬步 | (martial arts) horse stance (with legs wide apart, as when riding a horse) | ||
| 作威作福 | tyrannical abuse (idiom) / riding roughshod over people | syn | |
| 鼙 | drum carried on horseback | ||
| 走马看花 走馬看花 | lit. flower viewing from horseback (idiom) / fig. superficial understanding from cursory observation / to make a quick judgment based on inadequate information | syn | |
| 走马章台 走馬章臺 | to go to the brothel on horseback (idiom) / to visit prostitutes | ||
| 横吹 橫吹 | military wind and percussion music played on horseback under the Han / transverse flute / to play such a flute | ||
| 黄鹤楼 黃鶴樓 | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi | ||
| 免费搭车 免費搭車 | free riding (economics) | ||
| 小红帽 小紅帽 | Little Red Riding Hood | ||
| 骑射 騎射 | equestrian archery / riding and shooting | ||
| 骑驴找驴 騎驢找驢 | lit. to search for the mule while riding on it (idiom) / fig. to look for what one already has | ||
| 骑脖子拉屎 騎脖子拉屎 | lit. to take a dump while riding on sb's shoulders (idiom) / fig. to treat sb like garbage |