diff --git a/src/arg_desc.jl b/src/arg_desc.jl
index f244ff99..b7af05d9 100644
--- a/src/arg_desc.jl
+++ b/src/arg_desc.jl
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ const _arg_desc = KW(
 :series_annotations => "AbstractVector of String or PlotText.  These are annotations which are mapped to data points/positions.",
 :primary            => "Bool.  Does this count as a 'real series'?  For example, you could have a path (primary), and a scatter (secondary) as 2 separate series, maybe with different data (see sticks recipe for an example).  The secondary series will get the same color, etc as the primary.",
 :hover 				=> "nothing or vector of strings. Text to display when hovering over each data point.",
+:stride             => "(1,1). Array row and column strides. Used in surface/wireframe."
 
 # plot args
 :plot_title               => "String. Title for the whole plot (not the subplots) (Note: Not currently implemented)",
diff --git a/src/args.jl b/src/args.jl
index f60e782c..a72183b0 100644
--- a/src/args.jl
+++ b/src/args.jl
@@ -214,8 +214,7 @@ const _series_defaults = KW(
     :primary            => true,     # when true, this "counts" as a series for color selection, etc.  the main use is to allow
                                      #     one logical series to be broken up (path and markers, for example)
     :hover              => nothing,  # text to display when hovering over the data points
-    :rstride            => 1,        # array row stride for wireframe/surface
-    :cstride            => 1,        # array column stride for wireframe/surface
+    :stride,            => (1,1),    # array stride for wireframe/surface, the first element is the row stride and the second is the column stride.
 )
 
 
@@ -471,6 +470,7 @@ add_aliases(:series_annotations, :series_ann, :seriesann, :series_anns, :seriesa
 add_aliases(:html_output_format, :format, :fmt, :html_format)
 add_aliases(:orientation, :direction, :dir)
 add_aliases(:inset_subplots, :inset, :floating)
+add_aliases(:stride, :wirefame_stride, :surface_stride, :surf_str, :str)
 
 
 # add all pluralized forms to the _keyAliases dict
diff --git a/src/backends/pyplot.jl b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
index ed3d5c95..ecac853a 100644
--- a/src/backends/pyplot.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ const _pyplot_attr = merge_with_base_supported([
     :inset_subplots,
     :dpi,
     :colorbar_title,
-    :rstride,
-    :cstride,
+    :stride,
   ])
 const _pyplot_seriestype = [
         :path, :steppre, :steppost, :shape,
@@ -704,8 +703,8 @@ function py_add_series(plt::Plot{PyPlotBackend}, series::Series)
             handle = ax[st == :surface ? :plot_surface : :plot_wireframe](x, y, z;
                 label = series[:label],
                 zorder = series[:series_plotindex],
-                rstride = series[:rstride],
-                cstride = series[:cstride],
+                rstride = series[:stride][1],
+                cstride = series[:stride][2],
                 linewidth = py_dpi_scale(plt, series[:linewidth]),
                 edgecolor = py_linecolor(series),
                 extrakw...