Definitions of RIDE in various dictionaries:
noun -
a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
noun -
a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
verb -
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
verb -
be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
verb -
continue undisturbed and without interference
verb -
move like a floating object
verb -
harass with persistent criticism or carping
verb -
be sustained or supported or borne
verb -
have certain properties when driven
verb -
be contingent on
verb -
lie moored or anchored
verb -
sit on and control a vehicle
verb -
climb up on the body
verb -
ride over, along, or through
verb -
keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
verb -
copulate with
To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
To travel over a surface: This car rides well.
To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water: The President rode into office on a tide of discontent.
To lie at anchor: battleships riding at the mouth of the estuary.
To seem to float: The moon was riding among the clouds.
To be sustained or supported on a pivot, an axle, or another point.
To be contingent; depend: The final outcome rides on the results of the election.
To continue without interference: Let the matter ride.
To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body: pants that ride up.
To sit on and move in a given direction: rode a motorcycle to town; ride a horse to the village.
To travel over, along, or through: ride the highways.
To be supported or carried on: a swimmer riding the waves.
To take part in or do by riding: He rode his last race.
To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried.
To keep (a vessel) at anchor.
Informal.
To tease or ridicule.
To harass with persistent carping and criticism.
To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot: Don’t ride the clutch or the brakes.
The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.
A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.
A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.
A means of transportation: waiting for her ride to come.
To guard a person or thing while in transit.
To ride in the front passenger seat of a car or truck.
To deceive or swindle: an author who tried to take his publisher for a ride.
To transport to a place and kill.
verb - to sit on, control, and be conveyed by an animal or machine