Definition of Ride

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Definition of Ride

Ride

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.

To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

To be supported in motion; to rest.

To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.

The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

A saddle horse.

A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

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Ride Quotations

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
Walt Disney

Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. Thompson

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey

It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
R. Lee Ermey

Ride Translations

ride in Afrikaans is ry
ride in Danish is fare, ride
ride in Dutch is rijden
ride in Finnish is ratsastaa, ajaa
ride in German is reiten, Ritt, Ritt, fahren
ride in Italian is giro, andare a corsa
ride in Latin is veho
ride in Portuguese is passeio
ride in Spanish is paseo

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