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musical ride

British  

noun

  1. a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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During her 23 years with the force, she had been a member of its ceremonial musical ride, one of the vestiges of the days when its officers traveled the country on horseback.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2020

An inventor takes his kids and a candy tycoon’s daughter for a musical ride in a flying car.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2020

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang This 1968 musical fantasy stars Dick Van Dyke as an inventor who takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter for a musical ride in a flying car.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 22, 2018

Now Henry James’s taut 1898 novella is getting a fresh musical ride as a handful of Signature Theatre vets premiere their work at Creative Cauldron, a comfortable black box on a Falls Church side street.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2015

The lancers, in particular, executed an effective "musical ride" about a central pennon, to the immense satisfaction of the fashionable public in the foreground and of the gallery on the rocks.

From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Wharton, Edith

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