riding out

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat.
2. (broadly, idiomatic, transitive) To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather.
   • In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, page 174
3. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To go out in a vehicle with one's friends or crew.
   • Let's ride out and see what we can get into.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.