Definition
to ride (a horse, a bicycle, a motorcycle): to travel on (a horse, a bicycle, a motorcycle)
I've never ridden a horse in my life. I've never sat on one and traveled on it before.
This is an irregular verb:
I ride / I rode / I have ridden
a ride: a journey, a trip, an excursion, an outing; a free journey in a car; a machine in an amusement park
It's a five-minute bike ride from work to my home. It takes me five minutes traveling on my bike.
Can you give me a ride? Can you take me to work in your car? I don't have any money to pay for a taxi.
to go for a ride (in a car): to take a drive, to travel around (in a car)
Pronunciation examples
UK: Can I offer you a ride home?
US: I've never ridden a motorcycle, but yesterday I rode a horse.
- "Thursday : Sources report that the jet setting juice juggernaut was partying hard in the underwater city of Atlantis , riding sea horses and organizing illegal dolphin fights."
- "That'll be thirty-five quid for the ride, love."
- "Ride a whale while wearing a cowboy hat."
- "Horatio : Eat a hippopotamus, ride a pigeon..."
- "We're going for a little ride!"
- "(Ride horses)"
- "And who would play this zebra-riding virgin girl?"
- "Can I ride her out the store?"
- "- The unicorns are for riding, not for eating."
- "Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long."
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