verb
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.
Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
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.
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
The cab rode him downtown.
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: […]
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 […]
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.
noun
An instance of riding.
Can I have a ride on your bike?
We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
A vehicle.
That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
pimp my ride
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
the kids went on all the rides
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
Can you give me a ride home?
A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
"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..."