The word "dismounted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person who has gotten off a horse, a bike, or any other type of vehicle or machine. For example, "After a long day of riding, the cowboy dismounted his horse."
"ON THE afternoon of 29 May 1453, the Sultan entered the long-desired city…he dismounted and bent to pick up a handful of earth, which he poured over his turban as an act of humility before God.
Others have dismounted to join the killing.At first glance the picture strikes one as quite decorative the snowy village rooftops, the colourful mêlée of figures against the white background, the unified compositions within the main.
Rights, as Richard Bland of Virginia insisted in The Colonel Dismounted (as early as 1764), implied equality.
But instead of peacefully exiting the arena, Cintrón dismounted anyway and rushed the unsuspecting young male understudy assigned to kill her bull.
Greatly outnumbered, Balliol adopted tactics later copied by Edward III at the Battles of Halidon Hill (1333) and Crécy (1346); most of his men at arms dismounted, while archers were posted at either flank.
Three French divisions, the first two dismounted, were drawn up one behind another.
Then the main French assault, consisting of heavily armoured, dismounted knights, advanced over the sodden ground.
The signal victory of an outnumbered English army of longbowmen and dismounted men-at-arms over mounted French chivalry supported by mercenary Genoese crossbowmen at Crécy on Aug. 26, 1346, marked the end of massed cavalry charges by European knights for a century and a half.
Murtagh, entering his pomp in his new role as Ballydoyle stable jockey, dismounted and declared Duke Of Marmalade among the best he had ever ridden.
Once at the top, we dismounted our lumbering steeds and wandered the ramparts taking in the views of the dusty hills of Rajasthan – a desert state fought over for its control of trade routes – and peeping through the gaps in walls which, we explained to the curious kids, were once used for firing on attackers.
Hope's mother, Nazan Fennell, said her daughter was cycling home from school, but was killed while trying to cross on foot after she dismounted, because the road was too dangerous to cycle on.
