Strides meaning : To walk with long steps. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. To pass over at a step; to step over. To straddle; to bestride. A long step in walking. The distance covered by a long step. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc. A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. Trousers.