Definition of: ride

(rīd) v. rode (Obs. rid), rid·den (Obs. rid), rid·ing v.i.
1. To sit on and be borne along by a horse or other animal, especially while guiding or controlling its motion.
2. To be borne along as if on horseback.
3. To travel or be carried on or in a vehicle or other conveyance.
4. To be supported in moving: The wheel rides on the shaft.
5. To move; be borne; float: The ship rides on the waves.
6. To support and carry a rider in a specified manner: This car rides easily.
7. To seem to float in space, as a star.
8. Naut. To lie at anchor, as a ship.
9. To overlap or overlie, as broken bones.
10. To work or move upward out of place: with up: His sleeve has ridden up.
11. Slang To continue unchanged: Let it ride.
—v.t.
12. To sit on and control the motion of (a horse, bicycle, etc.).
13. To move or be borne or supported upon: The glider rides air currents.
14. To overlap or overlie.
15. To travel or traverse (an area, etc.) on horseback, in an automobile, etc.
16. To control imperiously or oppressively: usually in the past participle: a king-ridden people.
17. To accomplish by riding: to ride a race.
18. To cause to ride.
19. To place (someone) astride something and carry him, especially as a punishment: They rode him out of town on a rail.
20. Naut. To keep at anchor.
21. Colloq. To tease or harass by ridicule or petty criticisms; tyrannize. See synonyms under DRIVE.
—to ride out To survive; endure successfully.
—noun
1. An excursion by any means of conveyance, as on horseback, by car, etc.
2. A road intended for riding.
—to take for a ride Slang
1. To remove (a person) to a place with the intent to murder.
2. To cheat; swindle. [OE rīdan]