## Meanings
1. A person who rides a horse, bicycle, motorcycle, or similar.
2. A person travelling in a vehicle but not driving it.
3. An extra condition or section added to a document or law.

## Examples
- The rider guided her horse over the fence.
- The bus was full of riders heading downtown.
- The senator attached a rider to the spending bill.

## Synonyms
- horseman

## Derived Forms
- backrider
- blackrider
- boardrider
- boundary-rider
- bowrider
- dickrider
- dragonrider
- forerider
- gang-rider
- horserider
- lowrider
- meatrider

## Related Forms
- mountie

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rēodan
- Root: *reudan

## Etymology
* As an English surname, from the noun rider. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. Compare Reeder. * Also as an English surname, from dialectal rithe (“small stream”). * As an Irish surname, calque from Irish ó marcaigh (“descendant of the (horse)rider”). This is also found directly in Markey. * As a German surname, Americanized from Reiter.

## AI Etymology
Rider * As an English surname, from the noun rider. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. Compare Reeder. * Also as an English surname, from dialectal rithe (“small stream”). * As an Irish surname, calque from Irish ó marcaigh (“descendant of the (horse)rider”). This is also found directly in Markey. * As a German surname, Americanized from Reiter. Modern senses include a person who rides a horse, bicycle, motorcycle, or similar. and a person travelling in a vehicle but not driving it.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as backrider, blackrider, boardrider, boundary-rider, bowrider, and dickrider and related forms such as mountie.

## Topics
- Transportation

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