piggyback ride

Child's shoulder transport

A piggyback ride is carrying someone on your back, with their legs wrapped around your waist and arms around your neck or shoulders.

Usually given by adults to children, though friends might offer one another piggyback rides for fun or necessity: He gave his daughter a piggyback ride through the crowded fair.

The term extends to anything carried on top of something else.

Related

on my back · lift · hop on · dad · hold on tight · bouncing · grip · legs · arms · playful · play time · gallop · giddy up · toddle · father · holding · fun · climb

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Opposites
mode of carrying/transportation

piggyback ridestroller

Wheeled infant conveyance

wheelchair · wagon · fireman's carry · baby carrier · shopping cart

self-sufficiency in locomotion

piggyback ridewalking unaided

running · crawling · toddling · stroller · baby carriage

Family

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Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G