ride

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.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 310:

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.

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “I Go on the Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Salt Water and Smell Powder”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume II, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 96:

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.

1923 April 28, “Mrs. Rinehart”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:

'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.'

1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, published 1980, →ISBN, page 81:

The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.

2010 October 6, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(transitive, intransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

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.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.

1960 June 20, “Biznelcmd”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:

(transitive, intransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

The cab rode him downtown.

(transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.

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: […]

a. 1701, [John] Dryden, “Book I”, in Ovid, Ovid’s Art of Love. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, pages 19–20:

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 […]

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.

Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.

The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.

(transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.

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.

1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present:

How many races have you ridden this year?

The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:

(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

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?

1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22:

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.”

2006 October 7, Andrew Pollack, “Which Cows Do You Trust?”, in The New York Times:

(transitive, figuratively) To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).

To exploit or take advantage of (a situation).

A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.

1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345:

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.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152:

(transitive, intransitive, slang) To mount (someone) to have sex with them.

To mount (someone) to have sex with them.

(transitive, intransitive, Ireland, slang) To have sex with (someone).

“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.

2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375:

(transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

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.

(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

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.

2006 March 9, “Grappling with deficits”, in The Economist:

She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.

2001 September 16, Jenny Eliscu, “Oops...she's doing it again”, in The Observer:

(intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

The nobility[…] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.

1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit:

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

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.

2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook:

“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. […]

2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting, page 22:

(radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.

The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.

2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism, page 238:

(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

en-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)

rides (present singular third-person)
riding (participle present)
rode (past)
rade (obsolete past)
rid (obsolete past)
ridden (participle past)
rode (colloquial nonstandard participle past)

set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil

ry

to transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, bicycle etc.

ry

to be transported in a vehicle as a passenger

ratsastaa

to travel lightly and quickly, as on horseback

krymppääntyä

of clothing: to gradually move up and crease

roikkua

of clothing: to rest on a part of the body

From Middle English riden, from Old English rīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīdan, from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreydʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH-.
Cognates
From Proto-Germanic: North Frisian ride (“to ride”), Saterland Frisian riede (“to ride”), West Frisian ride (“to ride”), Low German rieden (“to ride”), Dutch rijden (“to ride”), German reiten (“to ride”), Danish ride (“to ride”), Swedish rida (“to ride”).
From Indo-European: Welsh rhwyddhau (“to hurry”).


ride

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

That's a nice ride; what did it cost?

pimp my ride

the kids went on all the rides

An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

Can you give me a ride home?

A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

"Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?"
"I could see down it till it went round the corner."...
 "...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..."

2015, Roderic Jeffries, Death in the Coverts, →ISBN:

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.

Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.

2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, “Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet):

(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

That story was a ride from start to finish.

We all started to dance / Without wearing no life vest / We all started to dance / It was quite a ride

2002, “Manila”, performed by Seelenluft ft. Michael Smith:

(figurative) A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.

I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.

(slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.

A district inspected by an excise officer.

(printing, historical) A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.

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