🚴 To travel on 🚗 A journey 🎢 A fun attraction ⛴️ To float on 🎯 To depend on 🙄 To nag 🐂 To mate 🦶 To press lightly 🛣️ To move smoothly

to ride

45 7.7

To keep a pedal lightly pressed while driving a car

verb
/raɪd/

Specialized

: dejar el embrague parcialmente pisado

When we turned down our street, we saw Farrah Lodge and Rusty Miller riding their bikes.

Examples

Nash was often tempted to sell it, but knew he'd miss riding on weekends.

Fiction book (1991)
-Yes, ride it right in.

Beach Party (1963)
We're riding it right here.

Parkland (2013)
- Alice wants to ride our pony.

The House of Magic (2013)
What'd I tell you about riding around these streets alone?

Run All Night (2015)
One summer we headed for the Texas coast, riding in Sherry's battered Suburban.

Academic text (2007)
Sala seemed unconcerned with the strain, riding the clutch whenever we threatened to stall.

Fiction book (1999)
Please don't ride the brake while driving; it can cause the car to stall.
He was warned not to ride the clutch too much or it would damage the transmission.
The instructor taught the students how to ride the brake gently when stopping.

Antonyms

to release

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

Idioms

to ride the rails

4 7.4

To travel long distances by train in a relaxed or adventurous way

to ride off into the sunset

Informal

3 6.5

Leave a situation happily to begin a new life

to ride the wave

3 4.2

To use a current trend or chance while it lasts to get advantage

to ride the bench

Jargon

2 7.5

To stay on the sidelines and not play in a game

to ride the pine

Slang

2 9.5

Sit on the bench and not play during a sports game

to ride roughshod

1 8.8

Treat people badly and ignore their feelings or rights

to ride hard and put away wet

Archaic

9.9

To be extremely tired and worn after hard work or rough treatment

to ride on a rail

Archaic

9.9

To be publicly punished or laughed at in a way that shames you

to ride on someone's coattail

Informal

6.9

Use another person's success to get benefits without much effort

to ride one's luck

Informal

7.4

To rely on good luck instead of working for success

to ride the short bus

Slur

9.9

To call someone not smart to insult them

to ride the wave of popularity

5.4

To gain from a sudden rise in public interest

to ride with the punches

Informal

7.2

To accept and adapt to difficult times without giving up

to ride tall in the saddle

8.2

Feel and act confident

ticket to ride

Informal

6.9

A way to gain success or better opportunities

Phrasal Verbs

to take a ride

56 1.9

To go for a short drive to have fun and relax

to ride off

24 3.9

To leave a place by riding a horse, bike, or motorcycle

to ride out

20 5.3

To stay safe through a difficult or dangerous time

to catch a ride

14 3.2

To travel in someone else's car as a passenger

to ride away

11 2.7

To go away while on a horse, bike, or motorcycle

to ride high

Informal

11 5.9

To be very successful and confident for a time

to ride up

9 5.1

Clothing that moves up on the body and feels uncomfortable

to ride horseback

2 3.7

To sit on a horse and guide it as it moves

to ride herd on

Informal

1 8.9

Keep a close watch on people and their work

to ride herd

1 8.8

To sit on a horse and guide a group of cows

to ride roughshod over

1 8.5

Treat other people's feelings, rights, or opinions as not important and ignore them rudely

to thumb a ride

Archaic

1 8.2

To get a free ride from a passing car by standing by the road and showing your thumb

to ride bitch

Offensive

1 9.9

To sit behind the driver on a motorcycle

to offer a ride

1 2.0

Take someone somewhere in your car to help them

to take the ride

1 7.7

To accept an experience without knowing what will happen

to let it ride

7.0

Allow a situation to continue without changing it

to let the project ride

6.1

Allow a project to continue without making changes

to ride on the back of

5.4

To use past success to help you now

to ride luck

Informal

7.3

To take a risk and hope things go well

to ride someone's bumper

Informal

7.9

To drive very closely behind another car in a dangerous way

to ride tandem

4.8

To travel on a bicycle with one person sitting behind another

Compounds

free ride

Informal

37 4.2

A benefit you get without paying or working

boat ride

16 1.3

A short trip on a boat to see places or for fun

wild ride

15 3.6

An exciting, fast attraction at an amusement park like a roller coaster

full ride

13 3.4

A scholarship that pays all college costs, including tuition, fees, room, and meals

hay ride

1 3.0

A ride in a wagon filled with hay for fun on a farm

rollercoaster ride

1 4.0

An experience with many sudden ups and downs in feelings or events

airship ride

6.7

A trip in a large blimp that carries people to look at the land below

backie ride

Australian

9.6

A ride sitting behind someone on a bicycle or motorbike

Nantucket sleigh ride

Archaic

9.9

A wild, dangerous ride like when a whale pulls a small boat very fast

How Engaged

hold

294 1.0

press

11 1.3

to ride

Specialized

45 7.7

to tap

174 1.0

Surface Forms

ride infinitive

riding present participle

rides third person singular

rode past

ridden past participle

Etymology

A helpful image for ride the pedal is to imagine your foot 'riding' on the pedal like you ride a horse; this sense grew from the idea of keeping control while you are on something. So to ride the clutch or brakes is to keep them partly pressed.