bareback

[ bair-bak ]

/ ˈbɛərˌbæk /

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

But I confess I did sometimes enjoy a regular good gallop on a bare-backed horse, and riding-habits won't do for that.'

The Dictator |Justin McCarthy
Thus soliloquising, the unfortunate man remounted his wet and bare-backed steed, and rode away.

Over the Rocky Mountains |R.M. Ballantyne
My other servant, Man Sing, had his arms pinioned, and he was put on a bare-backed pony.

In the Forbidden Land |Arnold Henry Savage Landor
From somewhere in the darkness a bare-backed pony was produced and brought directly under the dangling rope.

Ben Blair |Will Lillibridge

Had she not scampered over these same moors on a half-wild Exmoor pony, bare-backed, and with a halter for a bridle?

Nell, of Shorne Mills |Charles Garvice

bareback

/ (ˈbɛəˌbæk) /

(of horse-riding) without a saddle

slang (of sex) without a condom

(intr) to practise unprotected sex