Astride

Get yourself astride the balance beam.

He sat astride over the main door.

These, horsed astride / a surge's crest, rock pendent o'er the deep; / to those the wave's huge hollow, yawning wide, / lays bare the ground below; dark swells the sandy tide.

When we were children, the grown-ups carried us astride.

The rider sat astride his horse.

Tom was sitting astride his horse at dusk when a ball of fire streaked across the sky, lighting up his face and making his eyes gleam.

The men ride their horses astride.

The boy sat astride his father’s knee.

Chʻung-ming, an island astride the mouth of the Yangtze, had been captured against quite stiff opposition from the Chinese River Defense Force and was being developed into an advance naval and air base.

The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.