Definition of "ride"

ride

/ɹaɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode
1. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
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  Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
  […] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
  1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 310
  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.
  1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “I Go on the Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Salt Water and Smell Powder”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume II, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], page 96
  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.
  1923 April 28, “Mrs. Rinehart”, in Time
  The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
  2010 October 6, The Guardian
2. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
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  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.
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
  In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
  1960 June 20, “Biznelcmd”, in Time
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.
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  Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]
  a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, pages 19–20
  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 […]
  1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719
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.
  Quotations
  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
7. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
  Quotations
  The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
  1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray
8. (transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
  Quotations
  Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam?
  1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
  By labeling milk free of the artificial hormone, the dairy industry can ride the popularity of natural foods, without the greater expense and special feeds required to produce milk that can be fully certified as “organic.”
  2006 October 7, Andrew Pollack, “Which Cows Do You Trust?”, in The New York Times‎
9. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
10. (intransitive, transitive, slang, vulgar) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
  Quotations
  She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
  1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345
  Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
  2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, page 152
11. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
  Quotations
  “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
12. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
  Quotations
  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 July 27, Ann Kessel, The Guardian
13. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
  Quotations
  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 March 9, “Grappling with deficits”, in The Economist
14. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
  Quotations
  She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
  2001 September 16, Jenny Eliscu, “Oops...she's doing it again”, in The Observer
15. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
16. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
  Quotations
  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
17. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
18. (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
  Quotations
  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.
  2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook
  “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. […]
  2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting, page 22
19. (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
  Quotations
  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
noun
plural rides
1. An instance of riding.
2. (informal) A vehicle.
3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
5. (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
  Quotations
  "Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?""I could see down it till it went round the corner."... "...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..."
  2015, Roderic Jeffries, Death in the Coverts
6. (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
  Quotations
  Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.
  1904, Country Gentleman
7. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
  Quotations
  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)
8. (jazz) A steady rhythmical style.
9. (figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
  Quotations
  We all started to dance / Without wearing no life vest / We all started to dance / It was quite a ride
  2002, “Manila”, performed by Seelenluft ft. Michael Smith
10. (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
11. A district inspected by an excise officer.
12. (printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.

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