noun
- A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile. )
- usage: "he took the family for a drive in his new car"
- synonyms: drive
- A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement.
verb
- Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions.
- usage: "She never sat a horse"; "Did you ever ride a camel"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare"
- synonyms: sit
- Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle.
- usage: "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day"
- Continue undisturbed and without interference.
- usage: "Let it ride"
- Move like a floating object.
- usage: "The moon rode high in the night sky"
- Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
- usage: "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"
- Be sustained or supported or borne.
- usage: "His glasses rode high on his nose"; "The child rode on his mother's hips"; "She rode a wave of popularity"; "The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name"
- Have certain properties when driven.
- usage: "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well"
- synonyms: drive
- Be contingent on.
- usage: "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework"
- synonyms: depend on, devolve on, depend upon, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon
- Lie moored or anchored.
- usage: "Ship rides at anchor"
- Sit on and control a vehicle.
- usage: "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
- Climb up on the body.
- usage: "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"
- Ride over, along, or through.
- usage: "Ride the freeways of California"
- Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot.
- usage: "Don't ride the clutch"
- Copulate with.
- usage: "The bull was riding the cow"
- synonyms: mount
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