to ride
- verb
- /raɪd/
- I was riding my bike by the docks.
- ride a bicycle
- ride a bike
- ride a horse
Got my car and I rode around just eating.
- Got my car and I rode around just eating.
- The other, you can't even ride a stationary bike.
- And all these people rode horses alongside me.
- Why are people who ride horses called Cowboys?
- But, and so she says, dad didn't ride bikes.
- And from Chicago to Detroit, they rode in a special box car.
- He just want to go ride ponies and look in the distance.
Examples
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You don't want to ride with the other kids?
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And then I would get on one and ride it around.
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It's our first time trying to ride in the car seat.
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Two people are gonna ride to the end of the line, all right.
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Daddy, I wanna ride my bike.
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It's a little scary to ride on the back there.
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OK, Gia, shall we ride the bikes over here?
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Then we dressed in our swimsuits and rode in the elevator to the pool.
Fiction book (1990) -
Bicycles should be ridden on the left side of the street, against traffic.
Academic text (2012) -
She loves to ride her bike along the scenic path every weekend.
Synonyms
To operate a car or give someone a ride
To go from one place to another, often for work or pleasure
Travel in an airplane or control a plane
To go for a short drive to have fun and relax
To ride a bicycle
To travel from one place to another over a long distance
To take someone in a vehicle to show them interesting places
To travel in someone else's car as a passenger
To ride a bicycle
To travel on water in a small vehicle like a rowboat or motorboat
To travel by rail to another place
To travel by car for pleasure
To ride a vehicle with two wheels that you pedal
To get a car through the Uber app
To ride in a car with a driver you pay
To ride a motorcycle for travel or fun
To ride a two-wheeled vehicle with a motor
Antonyms
Idioms
- Archaic
To be extremely tired and worn after hard work or rough treatment
- Informal
Use another person's success to get benefits without much effort
Phrasal Verbs
Treat other people's feelings, rights, or opinions as not important and ignore them rudely
- Archaic
To get a free ride from a passing car by standing by the road and showing your thumb
Compounds
- US
A scholarship that pays all college costs, including tuition, fees, room, and meals
- Archaic
A wild, dangerous ride like when a whale pulls a small boat very fast
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ride comes from an old German word ridan that meant 'to go on horseback'. So to ride something is to travel while you are carried by an animal, a bike, or a vehicle.