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# ride

«ride» in Mova's school dictionary: **to sit on something and travel on it, like a bike, horse…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (ride, rides, rode, ridden, riding); noun (a ride, rides)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To ride is to sit on something and travel on it, like a bike, horse or bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m1)

2) A ride is a trip on it: a bus ride, a pony ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m2)

3) A ride is also a machine at a fair or theme park: the rides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m3)

4) To give someone a ride (lift in the UK) is to take them in your car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m4)

5) To ride on something can mean it depends on it: «Everything rides on this game». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a trip with a distance or time; rides at a fair with tickets per ride; distances ridden on several days. In everyday life and safety: bike helmets, road safety, never take a ride from a stranger. In science: speed of a ride; forces on a roller coaster. In stories: a horse ride across the plains.

### examples

- She rides her bike 4 miles to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x1)
- Each ride costs 3 tickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x2)
- He rode for 2 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x3)
- How many rides can she take with 15 tickets? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x4)
- Always wear a helmet when you ride a bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x5)
- The roller coaster is the fastest ride at the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x6)
- Mum gave my friend a ride home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x7)
- Never accept a ride from someone you don't know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x8)
- Have you ever ridden a horse? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x9)
- They have still four miles to ride. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x10)

### note

Rides with a price per ride lead to multiply or divide; distances ridden on several days add up. Trap: a ride there and back is twice the one-way distance. Forms: ride, rode, ridden (not «rided»). «Ride a bike/horse» (you sit on it) vs «drive a car» (you control it from inside). UK often says «give a lift» for a car ride.

### In the corpora

- [Dolphins ride the waves made by boats and whales, which saves energy and seems to be fun for them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/8/)
- [Opossums are marsupials: the tiny babies grow in their mother's pouch and later ride on her back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/11/)
- [When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals/0/)
- [Fossils, tests and careful counting beat cartoons and myths, from the Flintstones riding dinosaurs to elephants scared of mice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/9/)
- [For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains between stops to reach places with food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ride» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.