stridings

Noun

striding (countable and uncountable, plural stridings)

1. The act of one who strides; a long step.
   • How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!1804, Thomas Brown, Poems, page 191
2. (uncountable) A technique for propelling forward that appears similar to walking, where a foot slides forward on the opposite side of a pole being planted to provide a location to apply force.