ride out

verb rides out · riding out · rode out · ridden out

1. transitive To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat. But the young man himself escaped, for he possessed a magical white stone, and when he through it ahead it clove a smooth passage for his canoe through the angry water; so he rode out the storm in safety.
2. broadly, idiomatic, transitive To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather. In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.
3. intransitive, slang To go out in a vehicle with one's friends or crew. Let's ride out and see what we can get into.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.