Dictionary Entry
ride
ride is a 4-letter English word with 29 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 29 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
- 2intransitive verb
To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
- 3intransitive verb
To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
- 4intransitive verb
To be supported in motion; to rest.
- 5intransitive verb
To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
- 6intransitive verb
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
- 7transitive verb
To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
- 8transitive verb
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- 9transitive verb
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- 10transitive verb
To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
- 11noun
The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
- 12noun
A saddle horse.
- 13noun
A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
- 14noun
a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
"he took the family for a drive in his new car"
Synonyms
- 15noun
a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
- 16verb
harass with persistent criticism or carping
"The children teased the new teacher"
"Don't ride me so hard over my failure"
- 17verb
copulate with
"The bull was riding the cow"
Synonyms
- 18verb
keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
"Don't ride the clutch!"
- 19verb
move like a floating object
"The moon rode high in the night sky"
- 20verb
ride over, along, or through
"Ride the freeways of California"
- 21verb
be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
"I ride to work in a bus"
"He rides the subway downtown every day"
- 22verb
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
"She never sat a horse!"
"Did you ever ride a camel?"
Synonyms
- 23verb
climb up on the body
"Shorts that ride up"
"This skirt keeps riding up my legs"
- 24verb
sit on and control a vehicle
"He rides his bicycle to work every day"
"She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
- 25verb
continue undisturbed and without interference
"Let it ride"
- 26verb
lie moored or anchored
"Ship rides at anchor"
- 27verb
be contingent on
"The outcomes rides on the results of the election"
"Your grade will depends on your homework"
- 28verb
have certain properties when driven
"This car rides smoothly"
"My new truck drives well"
Synonyms
- 29verb
be sustained or supported or borne
"His glasses rode high on his nose"
"The child rode on his mother's hips"
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