ride
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
broadcasting
entertainment
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
media
medicine
music
radio
sciences
sports
surgery
television
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
From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride, ridj, rir (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Dutch rijden, ryden (“to ride; to drive”), German reiten, reuten (“to ride”), German Low German rieden (“to ride; to drive”), Limburgish rieje (“to ride; to drive”), Luxembourgish reiden (“to ride”), Vilamovian raeita, rajta (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Faroese and Icelandic ríða (“to ride”), Norwegian Bokmål ri, ride (“to ride”), Norwegian Nynorsk ri, rida, ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).
From Indo-European: Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin irrītō (“to excite, incite, stimulate; to exasperate”), Ancient Greek ὀρῑ́νω (orī́nō, “to move, stir”), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Russian ре́ять (réjatʹ, “to fly, hover, soar”), Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to get up; to rise up”), Northern Kurdish rîtin (“to shit”), Persian ریدن (ridan, “to shit; to fuck up, to screw up”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke; to produce, yield”), Hittite 𒅈𒉡𒊻𒍣 (ar-nu-uz-zi, “to address, send”), Sanskrit रीति (rīti, “course, motion; current, stream; line, row”).
Inflected forms:
form: rides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: riding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: rid
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: ridden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: ride
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: ride
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: rid
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: ride
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: ridest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: rodest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: rid
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: rides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rideth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: rid
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: ride
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: rid
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: ride
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: rid
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: ride
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: riding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ridden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rode
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
participle
past
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.
He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted and ſent a man thence to Mr. Tuſher with a meſſage that a gentleman of London would ſpeak to him on urgent buſineſs.
It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.
'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.'
The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.
gloss: To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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.
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
gloss: To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
US
informal
transitive
examples: The cab rode him downtown.
gloss: Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]
By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]
gloss: To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
gloss: To traverse by riding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.
gloss: To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How many races have you ridden this year?
The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.
gloss: To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Now the question is: Can Lema ride his present impetus to a third tournament victory in the pressure-loaded Open or will he run out of steam?
By labeling milk free of the artificial hormone, the dairy industry can ride the popularity of natural foods, without the greater expense and special feeds required to produce milk that can be fully certified as “organic.”
gloss: To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
gloss: To mount (someone) to have sex with them.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Cowboy. That's what he calls me when we are like this. It's as if I'm sitting in a saddle and he is my horse. And when he starts to buck, I ride.
She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.
Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
gloss: To have sex with (someone).
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
ambitransitive
slang
gloss: To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.
gloss: Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.
gloss: To rely, depend (on).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.
gloss: Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.
gloss: To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
pos: verb
gloss: To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
pos: verb
examples: The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.
gloss: To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
pos: verb
gloss: To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: vocal riding
The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.
“You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]
gloss: In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
pos: verb
examples: The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.
Synonyms: get it on
Derived words: rideability
rideable
ride a hobby
ride a horse foaled by an acorn
ride a horse foaled of an acorn
ride along
ride-along
ride and tie
ride bitch
ride by
ride dirty
ride down
ride down on
ride fence
ride fences
ride for
ride hard
ride hard and put away wet
ride herd on
ride high
ride off
ride off into the sunset
ride-on
ride on
ride on a rail
ride one's bumper
ride one's luck
ride on the back of
ride or die
ride out
rideout
ride out the storm
ride over
ride pillion
ride rantipole
ride roughshod over
ride rusty
ride shank's mare
ride shotgun
ride someone hard and put them away wet
ride someone's ass
ride St. George
ride tall in the saddle
ride the bench
ride the boards
ride the brakes
ride the circuit
ride the clock
ride the clutch
ride the coattails
ride the cock carousel
ride the cotton bicycle
ride the cotton horse
ride the cotton pony
ride the crest of the wave
ride the fair
ride the high horse
ride the lightning
ride the pine
ride the pony
ride the rail
ride the rails
ride the rods
ride the short bus
ride the three-legged mare
ride the tiger
ride the wave
ride to hounds
ride up
ride up on
ride with
ride with the punches
test-ride
atride
beride
be riding for a fall
blackride
dickride
hail and ride
hand-ride
if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
joyride
kiss and ride
let something ride
like riding a bike
misride
noseride
outride
override
park and ride
park-and-ride
set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil
tailride
underride
upride
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: възкачвам
roman: vǎzkačvam
lang: Dutch
word: beklimmen
lang: Dutch
word: berijden
lang: Finnish
word: panna
lang: French
word: monter
lang: Galician
word: montar
lang: Greek
word: καβαλάω
roman: kavaláo
lang: Hungarian
word: meglovagol
lang: Polish
word: ujeżdżać
lang: Portuguese
word: sentar
lang: Portuguese
word: cavalgar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jahati
lang: Spanish
word: montar