ride

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ɹaɪd/

Verb

ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)

1. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
3. (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
   • The cab rode him downtown.
4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
   • The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
6. (transitive) To traverse by riding.
7. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
   • How many races have you ridden this year?
8. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
   • A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
9. (intransitive, transitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
10. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
11. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
12. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
13. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
14. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
15. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
16. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
17. (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
    • vocal riding
18. (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

Noun

ride (plural rides)

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.
   • go for a quick ride
2. (informal) A vehicle.
   • That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
   • pimp my ride
3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
   • the kids went on all the rides
4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
   • Can you give me a ride home?
5. (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
6. (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
7. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
8. (music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
9. A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
   • That story was a ride from start to finish.
10. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse
    • Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang
    • I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.

Anagrams

• Deri, Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired

Pronunciation

• IPA: /riːðə/, [ˈʁiðð̩]

Noun

ride c (singular definite riden, plural indefinite rider)

1. black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Verb

ride (past tense red, past participle redet, c reden, definite or plural redne)

1. to ride (to sit on the back of an animal)
2. (slang) to have intercourse with (sex position with one person sitting on top of another like on a horse)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁid/

Noun

ride f (plural rides)

1. wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
2. ripple
3. ridge

Verb

ride

1. inflection of rider:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• dire

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈri.de/
• Hyphenation: rì‧de

Verb

ride

1. third-person singular present indicative of ridere

Anagrams

• Drei, Redi, dire, idre, redi

Verb

rīdē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rīdeō

Verb

ride

1. Alternative form of riden

Alternative forms

• ri

Verb

ride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)

1. to ride (e.g. a horse)

Verb

ride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)

1. Alternative form of rida

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈridə/, /ˈriːdə/

Verb

ride

1. (intransitive) to ride
2. (transitive, intransitive) to drive