Ride

Quick meaning: Ride is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
2. (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
3. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
5. (transitive) To traverse by riding.
6. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).

Example Sentences

I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.

Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.

[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

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.

Word Forms

• rides
• riding
• rid
• ridden

Synonyms for ride

Depending on context, synonyms include shag, fuck, cop, bang, drive, cod.

Antonyms for ride

Common opposites include walk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cod, mount, tease, sit, rag, rally.

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