Take to the saddle on escaping from hurricane (5)
I believe the answer is:
cycle
'take to the saddle' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'on escaping from hurricane' is the wordplay.
'escaping from' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'hurricane' becomes 'cyclone' (I've seen this before).
'cyclone' with 'on' taken away is 'CYCLE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cycle that I've seen before include "Pushbike" , "Wagnerian series?" , "Sequence of events that repeats" , "schedule?" , "Regularly repeated sequence (of events)" .)