ride

verb rides · riding · rode · rade · rid · ridden

1. ambitransitive To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
2. ambitransitive To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
3. South Africa, US, informal, transitive To transport (someone) in a vehicle. The cab rode him downtown.
4. intransitive Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]
5. intransitive, transitive To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
6. transitive To traverse by riding. Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.
7. transitive To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. How many races have you ridden this year?
8. figuratively, transitive To exploit or take advantage of (a situation). Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam?
9. intransitive To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle. A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
10. ambitransitive, slang To mount (someone) to have sex with them. Cowboy. That's what he calls me when we are like this. It's as if I'm sitting in a saddle and he is my horse. And when he starts to buck, I ride.
11. Ireland, ambitransitive, slang To have sex with (someone).

    Similar: do it

12. colloquial, transitive To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
13. intransitive Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
14. intransitive To rely, depend (on). With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
15. intransitive Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
16. To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
17. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
18. To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
19. transitive To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds. vocal riding
20. In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style. The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.

Similar: get it on

noun rides

1. An instance of riding. Can I have a ride on your bike?
2. informal A vehicle. That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. the kids went on all the rides
4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. Can you give me a ride home?
5. UK A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. We walked, perhaps, half a mile […], and came out suddenly, where five rides met, at a small classic temple between lichened stucco statues which faced a circle of turf, several acres in extent.
6. UK, archaic, dialectal A saddle horse. Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.
7. Ireland A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive. Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
8. A steady rhythmical style.
9. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of ride cymbal
10. figuratively A wild, bewildering experience of some duration. That story was a ride from start to finish.
11. slang, vulgar An act of sexual intercourse. I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.

    Similar: shag, fuck, cop, bang

12. A district inspected by an excise officer.
13. historical A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.