Ride

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English

Verb

Ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode, past participle ridden)

  1. (intransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
    • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:
      I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
    • 2010, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2010:
      The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
  2. (transitive) To travel in such a way on (a horse, vehicle etc.).
    • 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923:
      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.
  3. (intransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      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.
  4. (transitive) To cover (a given distance, landscape etc.) on horseback, or later by bicycle etc.
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1:
      Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
  5. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
      By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home [...].
  6. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
  7. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales:
      Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].
    • 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, p. 345:
      She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
  8. (transitive, chiefly US, South African) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
    The cab rode him downtown.
  9. (transitive) To travel in (a vehicle) as a passenger.
    • 1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960:
      In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
  10. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
    • 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, p. 375:
      “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
  11. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
    • 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008:
      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.
  12. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
    • 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
      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.
  13. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
    • 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001:
      She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
  14. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

Derived terms

Terms derived from ride (verb)

Noun

Ride (plural Rides)
  1. An instance of riding.
    Can I have a ride on your bike?
  2. (informal) A vehicle.
    That is a nice ride you are driving.
  3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
  4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
    Can you give me a ride?
  5. (UK) a bridleway or other wide country path.

Derived terms

Terms derived from ride (noun)

Adverbs for Ride

thunderously; swiftly; triumphantly; furiously; victoriously; gallantly; blindly; leisurely; wildly; proudly; blithely; ruthlessly; roughly; desperately; dashingly; daringly; gracefully; decisively; superbly.

Thesaurus

Sunday drive, abut on, aggravate, airing, annoy, auto, badger, bait, bamboozle, banter, be at, be based on, bear on, bedevil, beset, bestraddle, bestride, bicycle, bike, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bully, bullyrag, bump off, burn up, bus, catch a train, chaff, chauffeur, cheat, chivy, cycle, deceive, defraud, delude, deride, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, dominate, drift, drive, entrain, exasperate, excursion, exercise, expedition, fash, float, foot, get, ghost, glide, go by rail, grin at, gripe, gull, harass, harry, hassle, haze, heckle, hector, hold in derision, hound, humbug, imbricate, intimidate, irk, irritate, jape, jaunt, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, journey, joyride, kid, lap, laugh at, laugh to scorn, lean on, lie, lie athwart, lie on, lift, make a train, make fun of, make game of, make heavy weather, make merry with, miff, molest, motor, motorcycle, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outing, outride, overlie, override, pan, pedal, peeve, perch, persecute, pester, pick on, pickup, pillory, pique, plague, plow the deep, pluck the beard, point at, poke fun at, pother, provoke, put on, put one on, rag, rally, razz, rely on, repose on, rest, rest on, rib, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, ride out, ride the sea, ridicule, rile, roast, roil, ruffle, run, sail, scud, shingle, shoot, sit in, sit on, skim, slip, smile at, snicker at, snigger at, spin, stand on, straddle, stride, swindle, take, take a joyride, take in, taxi, tease, terrorize, torment, torture, tour, trick, trip, try the patience, turn, tweak the nose, twit, tyrannize, vex, walk the waters, wash, weather, weather the storm, wheel, whirl, worry

Etymology

Middle English riden, Old English rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdanan, from Indo-European *reidh-. Cognate with Dutch rijden, German reiten, Swedish rida; and (from Indo-European) with Welsh rhwyddhau (“hurry”).

Pronunciation

Translations

Verb

in a vehicle
horse, bicycle

Noun

instance of riding
vehicle
amusement
lift

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Danish

Noun

Ride c. (singular definite Riden, plural indefinite Rider)

  1. black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Inflection
    Inflection of Ride
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative Ride Riden Rider Riderne
genitive Rides Ridens Riders Ridernes

Verb

Ride (imperative rid, present rider, past red, past participle redet, reden or redne, present participle ridende)

  1. ride

Etymology 1

From Faroese, Icelandic rita.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /riːdə/, [ʁiːðə]

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ríða.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /riːdə/, [ʁiːðə]

French

Noun

Ride f. (plural Rides)

  1. wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
  2. ripple, ridge

Etymology

From rider.

Pronunciation

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Italian

Verb form

ride

  1. third-person singular indicative present of ridere

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Latin

Verb

rīdē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rīdeō
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