ride

1. (ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.Examples: "I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office."; "Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time."; "[…] I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them."ambitransitive

2. (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.Examples: "Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore."; "In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets."ambitransitive

3. (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.Examples: "The cab rode him downtown."South-AfricaUSinformaltransitive

4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.Examples: "Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]"; "By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]"intransitive

5. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.Examples: "The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick."intransitivetransitive

6. (transitive) To traverse by riding.Examples: "Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances."transitive