1. The sport of riding horseback, especially the skill of riding horses
   "She excelled in riding and won several competitions";
   - horseback riding, equitation, horse riding [Brit]
    
2. Travel by being carried on horseback
   "Horseback riding was their favourite weekend activity";
   - horseback riding
    
3. [Cdn] An administrative district that elects a representative to a legislature, especially in Canada
   "The candidate campaigned throughout the riding to win votes"

1. Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
   "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day"
    
2. Sit and travel on the back of an animal, usually while controlling its motion
   "Did you ever ride a camel?";
   - sit
    
3. Sit on and control a vehicle
   "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
    
4. Have certain properties when driven
   "This car rides smoothly";
   - drive
    
5. Continue undisturbed and without interference
   "Let it ride"
    
6. Ride over, along, or through
   "Ride the freeways of California"
    
7. Be sustained, supported or borne
   "His glasses rode high on his nose"; "The child rode on his mother's hips"; "She rode a wave of popularity"; "The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name"
    
8. Be contingent on
   "The outcomes rides on the results of the election";
   - depend on, devolve on, depend upon, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon
    
9. Lie moored or anchored
   "Ship rides at anchor"
    
10. Climb up on the body
    "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"; "Shorts that ride up"
     
11. Move like a floating object
    "The moon rode high in the night sky"
     
12. [N. Amer, informal] Deliberately provoke by mocking or poking fun
    "Don't ride me so hard over my failure";
    - tease, razz [N. Amer, informal], rag, cod [Brit, informal], bait, taunt, twit [informal], rally, wind up [Brit, informal]
     
13. Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
    "Don't ride the clutch!"
     
14. Copulate with
    "The bull was riding the cow";
    - mount
     
15. [vulgar] (of a man) have sexual intercourse with
    "he boasted he was going to ride his first date";

Derived forms: ridings

Type of: ascend, ask, athletics, bemock [archaic], call for, climb, climb up, continue, copulate, couple, demand, engage, float, function, go, go along, go on, go up, involve, journey, keep, lie, lock, locomote, mate, mesh, mock, mount, move, necessitate, need, operate, pair, postulate, proceed, require, run, sport, take, travel, traveling [US], travelling [Brit, Cdn], work

Antonym: walk

Encyclopedia: Riding, Henry