Meaning of ride | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of riding.
2. A vehicle.
   informal
3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
5. A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
   UK
6. A saddle horse.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
7. A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
   Ireland
8. A steady rhythmical style.
9. Ellipsis of ride cymbal.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
10. A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
    figuratively
11. An act of sexual intercourse.
    slang, vulgar
12. A district inspected by an excise officer.
13. A fault caused by the overlapping of leads, etc.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Can I have a ride on your bike?”

“We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.”

“go for a quick ride”

“That's a nice ride; what did it cost?”

“pimp my ride”

“the kids went on all the rides”

“Can you give me a ride home?”

“"Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?" "I could see down it till it went round the corner."... "...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field..."”

“Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.”

“Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.”

“That story was a ride from start to finish.”

“We all started to dance / Without wearing no life vest / We all started to dance / It was quite a ride”

“I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.”

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