bareback

or bare·backed

[bair-bak]

adverb, adjective

with the back of a horse, burro, etc., bare; without a saddle: to ride bareback; a bareback rider.

Origin of bareback

First recorded in 1555–65; bare¹ + back¹

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Examples from the Web for bareback

Contemporary Examples of bareback

The group also posted to Craigslist: with the headline, "Do you like to bareback?"
Breaking: Grindr-ing Leads to Gonorrhea
Brandy Zadrozny
June 12, 2014

Historical Examples of bareback

I caught our pony, jumped on bareback, and dashed for their home.
Old Rail Fence Corners
Various
We had horses, she mused; we rode like demons, bareback, until trouble came.
Iole
Robert W. Chambers
You were the bareback, as I recall it—or was it Fatty Newell?
Penguin Persons & Peppermints
Walter Prichard Eaton
He wriggled there like a bareback rider on a bucking porcupine.
Bizarre
Lawton Mackall
Bareback he rode the mare with her halter for a bridle, as he had found her.
Corleone
F. Marion Crawford

British Dictionary definitions for bareback

bareback

barebacked

adjective, adverb

(of horse-riding) without a saddle

slang (of sex) without a condom

verb slang

(intr) to practise unprotected sex

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Word Origin and History for bareback

adj.

1560s, of riding, from bare (adj.) + back (n.).