Word.ws English Dictionary

rides fence

rides fence is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ride fence.

Meaning of ride fence

Verb

ride fence (third-person singular simple present rides fence, present participle riding fence, simple past rode fence, past participle ridden fence)

  1. To ride alongside the fence that borders a ranch, to identify and fix any breaches.
  2. (idiomatic) To proactively maintain or police social or personal boundaries.
  3. (idiomatic, proscribed) To sit on the fence; to remain neutral on a certain topic, to not have a stance or opinion.

Questions about rides fence

What is rides fence the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rides fence is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ride fence.

Words near rides fence in the dictionary

  1. rides bitch
  2. rides by
  3. rides dirty
  4. rides down
  5. rides down on
  6. rides fence
  7. rides fences
  8. rides for
  9. rides hard
  10. rides hard and puts away wet
  11. rides herd on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rides fence (page history and authors); ride fence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rides fence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rides_fence. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.