Definitions for rides

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rides ride

Spelling: [rahyd]

IPA: /raɪd/

Rides is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in rides (deirs).

Definitions for rides

noun

1. a journey or excursion on a horse, camel, etc., or on or in a vehicle.
2. a means of or arrangement for transportation by motor vehicle:
3. the vehicle used for transportation:
4. a vehicle or device, as a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, or merry-go-round, on which people ride for amusement.
5. a way, road, etc., made especially for riding.

Idioms

1. ride down, to trample or overturn by riding upon or against. to ride up to; overtake; capture: Nautical. to bear down upon (a rope of a tackle) with all one's weight.
2. ride for a fall, to conduct oneself so as to invite misfortune or injury.
3. ride herd on. herd1 (def 6).
4. ride shotgun. shotgun (def 9).
5. ride the beam, Aeronautics. to fly along the course indicated by a radio beam.
6. take for a ride, Slang. to murder, especially by abducting the victim for that purpose. to deceive; trick:

Verb phrases

1. ride out, to sustain (a gale, storm, etc.) without damage, as while riding at anchor. to sustain or endure successfully.

verb (used with object)

1. to sit on and manage (a horse, bicycle, etc.) so as to be carried along.
2. to sit or move along on (something); be carried or borne along on:
3. to ride over, along, or through (a road, boundary, region, etc.); traverse.
4. to ridicule or harass persistently:
5. to control, dominate, or tyrannize over:
6. to cause to ride.
7. to carry (a person) on something as if on a horse:
8. to execute by riding:
9. to rest on, especially by overlapping.
10. to keep (a vessel) at anchor or moored.
11. Jazz. to play improvisations on (a melody).

verb (used without object)

1. to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
2. to be borne along on or in a vehicle or other kind of conveyance.
3. to move or float on the water:
4. to move along in any way; be carried or supported:
5. to have a specified character for riding purposes:
6. to be conditioned; depend (usually followed by on):
7. Informal. to continue without interruption or interference:
8. to be carried on something, as a litter, a person's shoulders, or the like.
9. to work or move up from the proper place or position (usually followed by up):
10. to extend or project over something, as the edge of one thing over the edge of another thing.
11. to turn or rest on something:
12. to appear to float in space, as a heavenly body:
13. to lie at anchor, as a ship.

Origin of rides

before 900; 1915-20 for def 17; Middle English riden (v.), Old English rīdan; cognate with Old Frisian rīda, German reiten, Old Norse rītha; akin to Old Irish ríad journey (cf. Examples for rides

I've no halter the way I can ride down on the mare, and I must go now quickly.

"You are quite welcome to ride with me," returned Grace briefly.

That ride or die act we have been fooling the world with obviously ain't working.

I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

I told them it was back where I parked my car, so they offered me a ride.

She says she worked at Café Figaro, a Los Angeles restaurant co-owned by Cosby, and one day he offered to give her a ride home.

We reached the camp at sunset, after a day's ride of about 40 miles.

So they waved their hats recklessly and continued to ride to be in at the death.

He never ceased to feel cheated when he was obliged to ride in New York.

“They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.