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

to ride

6 9.8

To have sex with an animal, or used as a rude word for people

verb
/raɪd/

Offensive

: montar

I wished Mom could have been right here with me, riding bareback, riding double.

Yes yo at first I was like all these girls I'm trying to get to ride my D are mad sick yo.

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Examples

I would ride the shit out of you.

My Suicide (2009)
Stop trying to grab my hair and ride me.

Crazy Eyes (2012)
The little son was trying to ride the dog on the threshold.

Fiction book (1996)
And the simple act... of letting a strange man ride on me... has erased all that?

Poor Things (2023)
Patty and I are riding our horses together if that's okay.

The Man in the White Van (2024)
When I picture Philip and Dan, I see them riding those horses at full gallop.

Academic text (2000)
Canaan was still on top of him, one leg riding his back, his arm looped between.

Fiction book (1999)
Kathryn, the only thing you're going to be riding is me.

Fiction book (1999)
Ride him, Sullivan!

A Warrior's Heart (2011)
Many people choose to ride animals such as horses and camels during vacations.

Synonyms

to mount

vsto ride

NSFW

5 8.8

To climb onto another animal to mate with it

is used to mean the sexual act more generally and as vulgar human slang

Antonyms

to abstain

29 5.0

To choose not to take something, often for health or religious reasons

Idioms

to ride the wave

12 4.2

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

to ride off into the sunset

Informal

9 6.5

Leave a situation happily to begin a new life

to ride the rails

6 7.4

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

to ride the bench

Jargon

2 7.5

To stay on the sidelines and not play in a game

to ride roughshod

2 8.8

Treat people badly and ignore their feelings or rights

to ride the pine

Slang

2 9.5

Sit on the bench and not play during a sports game

to ride on someone's coattail

Informal

2 6.9

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

to ride the short bus

Slur

1 9.9

To call someone not smart to insult them

ticket to ride

Informal

1 6.9

A way to gain success or better opportunities

to ride on a rail

Archaic

1 9.9

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

to ride the wave of popularity

1 5.4

To gain from a sudden rise in public interest

to ride tall in the saddle

1 8.2

Feel and act confident

to ride with the punches

Informal

1 7.2

To accept and adapt to difficult times without giving up

to ride hard and put away wet

Archaic

9.9

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

to ride one's luck

Informal

7.4

To rely on good luck instead of working for success

Phrasal Verbs

to take a ride

65 1.9

To go for a short drive to have fun and relax

to ride out

54 5.3

To stay safe through a difficult or dangerous time

to ride off

29 3.9

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

to ride high

Informal

20 5.9

To be very successful and confident for a time

to offer a ride

17 2.0

Take someone somewhere in your car to help them

to catch a ride

16 3.2

To travel in someone else's car as a passenger

to ride away

13 2.7

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

to let it ride

11 7.0

Allow a situation to continue without changing it

to ride up

11 5.1

Clothing that moves up on the body and feels uncomfortable

to ride horseback

4 3.7

To sit on a horse and guide it as it moves

to ride herd

4 8.8

To sit on a horse and guide a group of cows

to ride herd on

Informal

2 8.9

Keep a close watch on people and their work

to ride on the back of

2 5.4

To use past success to help you now

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 roughshod over

1 8.5

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

to ride tandem

1 4.8

To travel on a bicycle with one person sitting behind another

to take the ride

1 7.7

To accept an experience without knowing what will happen

to ride bitch

Offensive

1 9.9

To sit behind the driver on a motorcycle

to ride someone's bumper

Informal

1 7.9

To drive very closely behind another car in a dangerous way

to ride luck

Informal

1 7.3

To take a risk and hope things go well

to let the project ride

6.1

Allow a project to continue without making changes

Compounds

free ride

Informal

43 4.2

A benefit you get without paying or working

wild ride

24 3.6

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

boat ride

19 1.3

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

full ride

12 3.4

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

hay ride

2 3.0

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

rollercoaster ride

2 4.0

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

Nantucket sleigh ride

Archaic

1 9.9

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

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

How Vulgar

to fuck

Offensive

∞ 9.9

to ride

Offensive

6 9.8

screw

Offensive

1 9.8

to have sex

NSFW

∞ 3.0

to copulate

NSFW

10 7.9

Surface Forms

ride infinitive

riding present participle

rides third person singular

rode past

ridden past participle

Etymology

Ride in the sexual sense comes from the same simple idea of getting on, from old ridan meaning 'to mount'. So the word describes the literal action of an animal mounting another, and when used for people it can be crude or offensive.