Road vs Supermoto - What's the difference?
road | supermoto |
(obsolete) The act of riding on horseback.
(obsolete) A hostile ride against a particular area; a raid.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.8:
(nautical, often, in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor.
* 1630 , , True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 38:
A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions.
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road .}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (figuratively) A path chosen in life or career.
* Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing (1964).
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, tiutle= An underground tunnel in a mine.
(US) A railway; (British) a single railway track.
(obsolete) A journey, or stage of a journey.
* Shakespeare
(sports, uncountable) A hybrid of motocross and road racing.
(countable) A supermotard.
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As nouns the difference between road and supermoto
is that road is (obsolete) the act of riding on horseback while supermoto is (sports|uncountable) a hybrid of motocross and road racing.road
English
(wikipedia road)Noun
(en noun)- There dwelt a salvage nation, which did live / Of stealth and spoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […].
- There delivering their fraught, they went to Scandaroone; rather to view what ships was in the Roade , than any thing else [...].
citation
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.}}
- Where, then, is the road to peace?
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
- With easy roads he came to Leicester.