Ride

/ɹaɪd/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
2. (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
3. (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
6. (transitive) To traverse by riding.
7. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
8. (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.

He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted and ſent a man thence to Mr. Tuſher with a meſſage that a gentleman of London would ſpeak to him on urgent buſineſs.

It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.

'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me.'

The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.

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.

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Word Forms

• rides
• riding
• rode
• rade
• rid
• ridden

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