Pronunciation Verb
ride (rides, present participle riding; past rode, past participle ridden)
- (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
- 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.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, page 310 ↗:
- {...}} I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
- (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
- 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.
- 1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]
- The cab rode him downtown.
- (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
- Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
- 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 […]
- (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]
- The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
- (transitive) To traverse by riding.
- 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
- 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.
- 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
- (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- How many races have you ridden this year?
- {{RQ:Scott Marmion|passage=The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
- (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
- (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]
- 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
- She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
- 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
- (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
- 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
- “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
- 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
- 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.
- 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008 ↗
- (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
- 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.
- 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:
- (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
- 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.
- 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001 ↗
- (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- The nobility […] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit
- (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
, Radio Jockey Handbook - The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.
- 2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22)
- “You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]
- (music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- (to have sexual intercourse) do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- French: (on a vehicle), rouler, (on an animal) monter, chevaucher
- German: (horse) reiten, (bicycle) fahren
- Portuguese: andar de, cavalgar (to ride a horse)
- Russian: (concrete) е́хать
- Spanish: montar, cabalgar (horse)
ride (plural rides)
- An instance of riding.
- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
- (informal) A vehicle.
- That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- Can you give me a ride?
- (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
- (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
- Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.
- 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:
- (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
- The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.
- 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)
- French: tour, course
- German: Fahrt
- Italian: giro, corsa
- Portuguese: volta, andada, passeio
- Russian: езда́
- French: bagnole
- Italian: (car) macchina, auto
- Portuguese: carango, possante (Brazil)
- Russian: та́чка
- Spanish: medio de transporte
- Portuguese: carona (Brazil), boleia (Portugal), bigu
- Russian: подво́з
- Spanish: rait (phonetic cognate of ride), autoestop, aventón (colloquial)
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