Definition of ride

"ride" in the noun sense

1. drive, ride

a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile

"he took the family for a drive in his new car"

2. ride

a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement

"ride" in the verb sense

1. ride, sit

sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions

"She never sat a horse!"

"Did you ever ride a camel?"

"The girl liked to drive the young mare"

2. ride

be carried or travel on or in a vehicle

"I ride to work in a bus"

"He rides the subway downtown every day"

3. ride

continue undisturbed and without interference

"Let it ride"

4. ride

move like a floating object

"The moon rode high in the night sky"

5. tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride

harass with persistent criticism or carping

"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"

6. ride

be sustained or supported or borne

"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"

7. drive, ride

have certain properties when driven

"This car rides smoothly"

"My new truck drives well"

8. depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon

be contingent on

"The outcomes rides on the results of the election"

"Your grade will depends on your homework"

9. ride

lie moored or anchored

"Ship rides at anchor"

10. ride

sit on and control a vehicle

"He rides his bicycle to work every day"

"She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"

11. ride

climb up on the body

"Shorts that ride up"

"This skirt keeps riding up my legs"

12. ride

ride over, along, or through

"Ride the freeways of California"

13. ride

keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot

"Don't ride the clutch!"

14. ride, mount

copulate with

"The bull was riding the cow"

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Quotations for ride

To ride post for a pudding. [ Proverb ]

What! is it nothing, but up and ride? [ Proverb ]

You saddle today and ride out tomorrow. [ Proverb ]

Barbarous asses ride on Barbary horses. [ Proverb ]

If wishes would bide, beggars would ride. [ Proverb ]

Where water is shallow no boat will ride. [ Proverb ]

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ride softly that you may get home the sooner. [ Proverb ]

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

You are a pretty fellow to ride a goose a gallop. [ Proverb ]

They are scarce of horses when two ride on a dog. [ Proverb ]

You will ride a horse that was foaled of an acorn. [ Proverb ]

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [ Burton ]

Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil. [ Proverb ]

Money will make a baboon or a bear to ride in a coach. [ Proverb ]

A man may love his house and yet not ride on the ridge. [ Proverb ]

He that makes himself an ass, must not take it ill if men ride him. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot ride a gentle horse must not attempt to back a mad colt. [ Proverb ]

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. [ Peacham ]

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into this world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. [ Richard Rumbold ]

You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. The times (as Carlyle says) are bad; very well, you are there to make them better. [ John Burroughs ]

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths - not until then can you know what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

ride in Scrabble®

The word ride is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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ride in Words With Friends™

The word ride is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words within the letters of ride

2 letter words in ride (2 words)

3 letter words in ride (5 words)

4 letter words in ride (Anagrams) (3 words)

Words containing the sequence ride

Words that start with ride (6 words)

Words with ride in them (192 words)

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Word Growth involving ride

Shorter words in ride

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saccharide saccharides polysaccharides mucopolysaccharides

saccharide saccharides tetrasaccharides

saccharide saccharides trisaccharides

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