rides

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. (ambitransitive) 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. (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
   • 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
3. (South Africa, US, informal, transitive) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
   • The cab rode him downtown.
4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
   • 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
5. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
   • 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

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