Ride

Part of speech: verb, noun

Pronunciation: /ɹaɪd/

Definitions

1. To be carried as a passenger on a bike, horse, vehicle, or other mode of transport ; to control or travel on a bike, motorcycle, or horse by sitting and directing it ; a trip or passage made by riding on or in a vehicle or animal
2. To travel by sitting and being moved along on an animal or vehicle ; to guide or manage a bike, motorbike, or horse during movement ; an occasion of traveling by riding, especially for enjoyment or transport
3. To move along while supported by a vehicle or animal ; to handle or steer a bicycle, horse, or motorbike ; an instance of passage or journey taken while riding

Etymology: The verb "ride" is one of the oldest words in English's riding vocabulary, and its Old English form "rīdan" meant simply to travel on horseback or by any moving conveyance, a sense it has kept for more than a thousand years. Its relatives are scattered across the Germanic languages: Dutch "rijden," German "reiten," Swedish "rida," and Icelandic "ríða" all mean "to ride," so the word was a shared inheritance from the common ancestor of these tongues rather than a loan from elsewhere. Its deeper roots point somewhere quite different. Linguists trace the Proto-Indo-European root to a sense of "to move" or "to stir," and that idea survives in surprising company. Latin "irrītō" meant "to excite" or "to provoke," and ancient Greek "orīnō" meant "to move, stir." Even Sanskrit "rīti" referred to a course or current. The horseman's word, in other words, began as a general notion of motion before it narrowed to the rider on a horse.

Synonyms: travel, journey, mount, board, saddle

Antonyms: dismount, get off