musical ride

British

noun

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

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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

You cannot discover in a musical ride any parable with a meaning applicable to life.

From Gossamer 1915 by Birmingham, George A.

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