Misplaced Pages

Riding

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Riding (disambiguation))

Riding is a homonym of two distinct English words:

From the word ride

From Old English *þriðing

  • Riding (division), administrative division of a county, or similar district
  • Electoral district (Canada), Canadian term for an electoral district
  • Riding association, Canadian political party organization at the riding level
  • Riding officer, name once used for customs officials who patrolled for smugglers on beaches and other informal landing spots
  • Common riding, event celebrated in some Scottish towns to commemorate the guarding by local men of the town's common-land boundaries

Other uses

See also

Topics referred to by the same term Disambiguation iconThis disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Riding.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: