ride /rīd/

1. To travel or be borne on the back of an animal, on a bicycle, or in a vehicle, boat, on a broomstick, the waves, a whirlwind, etc (usu with in, on or upon)
2. To float or seem to float buoyantly
3. To go on horseback on a raid (archaic), in procession, across a ford, etc
4. To serve as a cavalryman
5. To lie at anchor (nautical)
6. To remain undisturbed or unchanged
7. To sit or move as if on horseback
8. To turn, rest or grate upon something
9. To work up out of position
10. (of an animal, etc) to allow itself to be ridden
11. To weigh when mounted
12. To have sexual intercourse (vulgar sl)

1. To traverse, trace, ford or perform on horseback, on a bicycle, etc
2. To sit on
3. To sit astride
4. To sit on and control
5. To travel on
6. To control at will, or oppressively
7. To oppress, domineer over, badger, annoy
8. To improvise on (a theme) (jazz)
9. To rest upon
10. To overlap
11. To mount upon
12. To sustain, come through, esp while riding at anchor (nautical; also figurative)
13. To give a ride to, or cause to ride
14. To convey by vehicle (US)
15. To have sexual intercourse with (vulgar sl)

1. A journey on horseback, on a bicycle, or in a vehicle
2. The animal, vehicle, etc providing this
3. A spell of riding
4. An act of riding with particular regard to the rider's, driver's, etc degree of comfort or discomfort, etc
5. A lift in a vehicle (N American)
6. The person providing such a lift
7. An experience or course of events of a specified nature, eg a rough ride
8. A fairground entertainment on or in which people ride
9. A road for horse-riding, esp one through a wood
10. An excise officer's district
11. An act of sexual intercourse (vulgar sl)
12. A sexual partner (esp female) (vulgar sl)

rīdabilˈity noun

Fitness for riding or driving, or for riding or driving along or across

rīˈdable or rideˈable adjective

-ridden combining form

Oppressed by the dominance or prevalence of a specified thing (eg hag-ridden or cliché-ridden)

rīˈder noun

1. A person who rides or can ride
2. A commercial traveller (obsolete)
3. A mosstrooper
4. An object that rests on or astride of another, such as a piece of wire on a balance for fine weighing
5. A clause or corollary added to an already complete contract or other legal document
6. A list of specific personal requirements, such as food and drink, included in the contract of a performing artist
7. A proposition that a pupil or candidate is asked to deduce from another
8. A gold coin bearing a mounted figure (Du and Flem rijder)

rīˈdered adjective

rīˈderless adjective

rīˈding noun

1. The action of the verb to ride
2. The art or practice of horse-riding
3. A track, esp through woodland, for riding on
4. An excise-officer's district
5. Anchorage

riding boot noun

A high boot worn in riding

riding breeches plural noun

Breeches for riding, with loose-fitting thighs and tight-fitting legs

riding cloak noun

riding clothes plural noun

riding coat noun

A coat of a style worn by horse-riders

riding committee noun

A committee of ministers sent by the General Assembly to carry out an ordination or induction, where the local presbytery refused to act, under the 18c Moderate domination in Scotland

riding crop noun

riding glove noun

riding habit noun

A woman's dress for riding, esp one with a long skirt for riding side-saddle

riding hood noun

A hood formerly worn by women when riding

riding horse noun

riˈding-inˈterest noun (Scots law)

An interest depending on other interests

riding light noun (nautical)

A light hung out in the rigging at night when a vessel is riding at anchor

riding master noun

A teacher of horse-riding

riˈding-rhyme noun

The heroic couplet, perh from Chaucer's use of it in the Canterbury Tales

riding robe noun

A riding habit

riding rod noun

A light cane for equestrians

riding school noun

riding skirt noun

riding suit noun

riding whip noun

let (something) ride

To let (something) alone, not try to stop it

ride a hobby see under hobby¹

ride and tie

To ride and go on foot alternately, each tying up the horse, or leaving the bicycle by the roadside, and walking on (also rideˈ-and-tieˈ noun, adverb and intransitive verb)

ride down

1. To overtake by riding
2. To charge and overthrow or trample

ride for a fall

To court disaster

ride herd on (orig US)

1. To guard (a herd of cattle, etc) by riding on its perimeter
2. To control, keep watch on (figurative)

ride on

To depend, rest or turn on

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