"ride the boards" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides the boards",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding the boards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode the boards",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden the boards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ride<,,rode,ridden> the boards"
      },
      "expansion": "ride the boards (third-person singular simple present rides the boards, present participle riding the boards, simple past rode the boards, past participle ridden the boards)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
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        },
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          "kind": "other",
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Advertising",
          "orig": "en:Advertising",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Marketing",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Bruce G. Vanden Bergh, Helen E. Katz, Advertising Principles: Choice, Challenge, Change, page 362",
          "text": "In order to see the exact location of the boards being purchased, advertisers or their agencies will often ride the boards to visit some of the sites.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, The WetFeet Insider Guide to Careers in Advertising and Public Relations, page 86",
          "text": "A Day in the Life of an Advertising Media Planner […] 4:30 Go out riding the boards — checking out outdoor advertising locations — with the media buyer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To visit and inspect potential sites for billboard advertising."
      ],
      "id": "en-ride_the_boards-en-verb-aRvYrFUe",
      "links": [
        [
          "advertising",
          "advertising#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "visit",
          "visit"
        ],
        [
          "inspect",
          "inspect"
        ],
        [
          "potential",
          "potential"
        ],
        [
          "site",
          "site"
        ],
        [
          "billboard",
          "billboard"
        ],
        [
          "advertising",
          "advertising"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(advertising) To visit and inspect potential sites for billboard advertising."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "advertising",
        "business",
        "marketing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride the boards"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rides the boards",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "riding the boards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rode the boards",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ridden the boards",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ride<,,rode,ridden> the boards"
      },
      "expansion": "ride the boards (third-person singular simple present rides the boards, present participle riding the boards, simple past rode the boards, past participle ridden the boards)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Advertising"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Bruce G. Vanden Bergh, Helen E. Katz, Advertising Principles: Choice, Challenge, Change, page 362",
          "text": "In order to see the exact location of the boards being purchased, advertisers or their agencies will often ride the boards to visit some of the sites.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, The WetFeet Insider Guide to Careers in Advertising and Public Relations, page 86",
          "text": "A Day in the Life of an Advertising Media Planner […] 4:30 Go out riding the boards — checking out outdoor advertising locations — with the media buyer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To visit and inspect potential sites for billboard advertising."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "advertising",
          "advertising#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "visit",
          "visit"
        ],
        [
          "inspect",
          "inspect"
        ],
        [
          "potential",
          "potential"
        ],
        [
          "site",
          "site"
        ],
        [
          "billboard",
          "billboard"
        ],
        [
          "advertising",
          "advertising"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(advertising) To visit and inspect potential sites for billboard advertising."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "advertising",
        "business",
        "marketing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ride the boards"
}