The word 'striding' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a verb or a noun. As a verb, it means to walk with long, decisive steps. As a noun, it refers to the action or manner of walking with long steps. Example: The tall man was striding confidently down the street, his determination evident in each step he took. The runner's powerful strides allowed her to finish the race in record time. The king's striding pace made it difficult for his subjects to keep up with him during his royal procession.
With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs.
He eventually perished in the deep to Sakande before striding off, bat raised towards the pavilion and the phalanx of photographers.
At 11 in the morning, I'm standing outside the designated cafe – which is closed – among the inevitable joggers and retired couples on their constitutional and toddlers feeding the swans, when Hegarty comes striding along the boardwalk.
Hours into his floor speech, Paul was still going strong, striding the floor behind his Senate desk to keep mobile and regaling the empty chamber with details of British and American constitutional history.
At 9am the channel projects its own version of Groundhog Day: a vigorous Andrew Marr striding purposefully into the studio of the show that still bears his name.
In 1990, O'Connor's film featured moody shots of the singer striding around a garden wearing a black full-length military-style overcoat and looking lonely.
We are lost in a private member's club in central London, striding up and down stairwells, through doors and down dead ends.
Admittedly it was midnight and balmy at the time, we were sitting at a street café in the Marais watching beautiful Parisians striding by, and we would gladly have paid twice as much for such a combination.
Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.
Last week the general tried to break out of the bubble by striding purposefully from the ISAF garrison in rural Kandahar he was visiting, in search of Afghans to question.
