ride

Plural: rides

Noun

• a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
• a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
• An instance of riding.
• A vehicle.
• An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
• A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
• A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
• A saddle horse.
• A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
• A steady rhythmical style.
• Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
• A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
• An act of sexual intercourse.
• A district inspected by an excise officer.
• A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.

Verb

Verb Forms: rode, ridden, riding, rides

• To sit on, control, and be conveyed by an animal or machine.
• sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
  • "Did you ever ride a camel?"
• be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
  • "I ride to work in a bus"
  • "He rides the subway downtown every day"
• continue undisturbed and without interference
  • "Let it ride"
• move like a floating object
• harass with persistent criticism or carping
  • "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"
• be sustained or supported or borne
• have certain properties when driven
  • "This car rides smoothly"
• be contingent on
  • "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"
• lie moored or anchored
  • "Ship rides at anchor"
• sit on and control a vehicle
  • "He rides his bicycle to work every day"
  • "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
• climb up on the body
  • "Shorts that ride up"
• ride over, along, or through
  • "Ride the freeways of California"
• keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
  • "Don't ride the clutch!"
• copulate with
• To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
• To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
• To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
• Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
• To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
• To traverse by riding.
• To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
• To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
• To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
• To mount (someone) to have sex with them.
• To have sex with (someone).
• To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
• Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
• To rely, depend (on).
• Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
• To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
• To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
• To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
• To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
• In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

Examples

• A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
• Can I have a ride on your bike?
• Can you give me a ride home?
• go for a quick ride
• He hoped his high-scoring word would ride him to victory in Words With Friends.
• How many races have you ridden this year?
• I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.
• I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
• pimp my ride
• That story was a ride from start to finish.
• That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
• The cab rode him downtown.
• the kids went on all the rides
• The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
• vocal riding
• We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.

Synonyms

bait, cod, depend on, depend upon, devolve on, drive, hinge on, hinge upon, mount, rag, rally, razz, sit, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, turn on, twit, bang, cop, copulate, do it, fuck, get it on, shag

Antonyms

walk

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