ride
//ɹaɪd//
Forms
- present (v1)
- ride
- past (v2)
- rode
- past participle (v3)
- ridden
- present participle
- riding
- 3rd person singular
- rides
- Plural
- rides
Definitions
1.To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
- The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
- 'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me.'
2.To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
- 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.
3.To transport (someone) in a vehicle.(informal)
- 'Hurt him considerably. Ride him down to Bellevue Hospital and dump him nearby. Got that?' 'Yassuh.' 'Don't be seen.' 'Nossuh.'
- The cab rode him downtown.
4.Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- I can ride a horse.
1.An instance of riding.
- Can I have a ride on your bike?
- We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
2.A vehicle.(informal)
- That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
3.An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
4.A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- Can you give me a ride home?
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1438
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną (“to ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ- (“to ride”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move”), from *h₃er- (“to move, stir”).
Cognates