ride

Meanings

• a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
• a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
• sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
  • "Did you ever ride a camel?"
• be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
  • "I ride to work in a bus"
  • "He rides the subway downtown every day"
• continue undisturbed and without interference
  • "Let it ride"
• move like a floating object
• harass with persistent criticism or carping
  • "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"
• be sustained or supported or borne
• have certain properties when driven
  • "This car rides smoothly"
• be contingent on
  • "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"
• lie moored or anchored
  • "Ship rides at anchor"
• sit on and control a vehicle
  • "He rides his bicycle to work every day"
  • "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
• climb up on the body
  • "Shorts that ride up"
• ride over, along, or through
  • "Ride the freeways of California"
• keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
  • "Don't ride the clutch!"
• copulate with

Synonyms

bait, cod, depend on, depend upon, devolve on, drive, hinge on, hinge upon, mount, rag, rally, razz, sit, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, turn on, twit