8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
noun a noncommittal or equivocal position
noun a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
noun the act of sitting or standing astride
originAs a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0