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

1. intransitive verb. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
2. intransitive verb. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
3. intransitive verb. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
4. intransitive verb. To be supported in motion; to rest.
5. intransitive verb. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
6. intransitive verb. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
7. transitive verb. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
8. transitive verb. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
9. transitive verb. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
10. transitive verb. To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
11. noun. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
12. noun. A saddle horse.
13. noun. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
14. noun. a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)

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

    Synonyms: drive

15. noun. a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
16. verb. harass with persistent criticism or carping

    "The children teased the new teacher"

    "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"

    Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit

17. verb. copulate with

    "The bull was riding the cow"

    Synonyms: mount

18. verb. keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot

    "Don't ride the clutch!"

19. verb. move like a floating object

    "The moon rode high in the night sky"

20. verb. ride over, along, or through

    "Ride the freeways of California"

21. verb. be carried or travel on or in a vehicle

    "I ride to work in a bus"

    "He rides the subway downtown every day"

22. verb. 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: sit

23. verb. climb up on the body

    "Shorts that ride up"

    "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"

24. verb. sit on and control a vehicle

    "He rides his bicycle to work every day"

    "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"

25. verb. continue undisturbed and without interference

    "Let it ride"

26. verb. lie moored or anchored

    "Ship rides at anchor"

27. verb. be contingent on

    "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"

    "Your grade will depends on your homework"

28. verb. have certain properties when driven

    "This car rides smoothly"

    "My new truck drives well"

    Synonyms: drive

29. verb. be sustained or supported or borne

    "His glasses rode high on his nose"

    "The child rode on his mother's hips"

Synonyms

drive, bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit, mount, sit

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ride:

dier, dire, drie, ired, reid

Common word forms

rider, rides, riding, rideable

Words from these letters

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