It’s that time of winter to show off your legs.

D.C. riders hopped on the pantless bandwagon for the first time in 2008.

This weekend, a few hundred residents took off their pants and took to the Metro. Yes, it was that time of year again — the fifth annual No Pants Metro Ride took place yesterday.

Hail to those who brave the cold in order to provide a bit of levity in these lonely, gray winter months! The District’s fourth-annual No Pants Metro Ride spread from L’Enfant Plaza across the Metro-world yesterday afternoon — and our Flickr contributors weren’t going to miss out.

Sunday’s weather forecast? Sunny, but only with a high of 38 and winds gusting at 19 miles per hour. Not that the cold will stop a bunch of dedicated people from stripping down to their skivvies outside: the 2011 No Pants Metro Ride will take place this Sunday, the fourth year that a large group of Washingtonians will head to a local park, take off their pants, then hit the Metro system and pretend like they aren’t half-naked.

For the last seven years, a renegade group of anti-pants New Yorkers have held an annual No Pants Subway Ride event, which last year attracted over 200 participants. In 2006, it even garnered several arrests. And now a Facebook group has popped up promoting a copycat event here on D.C.’s Metro this Saturday, Jan. 12. The proposed event, scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, currently has 82 confirmed guests on Facebook…

After an interstate bridge collapse in Minneapolis killed four people yesterday evening, authorities in the Washington metro area are reassuring drivers that the region’s bridges are safe, and there’s no reason to think something like that could happen here. The Minneapolis bridge was in the midst of being repaired, and there are several major bridges in D.C. also undergoing construction, including the the Wilson Bridge and the Douglass Memorial Bridge — though the latter has…

Have you ever been tempted to ditch your suit on the way to work? No, it’s not No Pants Day (not yet at least – that’s on May 5), but you can lose your pinstripes for charity tomorrow for the “Send A Suit” professional women’s clothing drive. Donate dry cleaned women’s suits to Send a Suit, which will help low-income women in the D.C. area who are seeking employment. You also can donate gently used…