Race vs. Ride — What's the Difference?

A competition between runners, horses, vehicles, etc. to see which is the fastest in covering a set course

To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.

A strong or rapid current flowing through a narrow channel in the sea or a river

(Sports) To participate in a board sport such as snowboarding.

A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where its energy is utilized, as in a mill or mine.

To travel over a surface

A smooth ring-shaped groove or guide in which a ball bearing or roller bearing runs.

To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water

A fenced passageway in a stockyard through which animals pass singly for branding, loading, washing, etc.

(Nautical) To lie at anchor

(in weaving) the channel along which the shuttle moves.

To seem to float

Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics

To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.

A ginger root.

To be contingent; depend

Compete with another or others to see who is fastest at covering a set course or achieving an objective

To continue without interference

Move or progress swiftly or at full speed

To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body

A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group. Most biologists and anthropologists do not recognize race as a biologically valid classification, in part because there is more genetic variation within groups than between them.

To sit on and control the movement of

A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution

(Sports) To glide or move while standing on or having one's feet attached to (a board, such as a snowboard).

A genealogical line; a lineage.

To travel over, along, or through

Humans considered as a group.

To be supported or carried on

A usually geographically isolated population of organisms that differs from other populations of the same species in certain heritable traits

To take part in or do by riding

A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.

To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried

A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.

(Sports) To control (an opponent) in wrestling, usually by holding the opponent down.

A competition of speed, as in running or riding.

(Nautical) To keep (a vessel) at anchor.

Races A series of such competitions held at a specified time on a regular course

To tease or ridicule.

An extended competition in which participants struggle like runners to be the winner

To harass with persistent carping and criticism.

Steady or rapid onward movement

To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot

A strong or swift current of water.

The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.

The channel of such a current.

A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.

An artificial channel built to transport water and use its energy. Also called raceway.

A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.

A groovelike part of a machine in which a moving part slides or rolls.

A means of transportation

See slipstream.

To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

Of or relating to race; racial

To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

Of or relating to forms of popular entertainment made by and largely marketed to African Americans in the early 1900s

To transport (someone) in a vehicle.

(Sports) To compete in a contest of speed.

(intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.

To move rapidly or at top speed

To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.

To run too rapidly due to decreased resistance or unnecessary provision of fuel

(transitive) To traverse by riding.

To compete against in a race.

(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

To cause to compete in a race

(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

To transport rapidly or at top speed; rush

To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.

To cause (an engine with the gears disengaged, for example) to run swiftly or too swiftly.

To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins

(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.

(intransitive) To rely, depend (on).

(computing) A race condition.

(intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

A progressive movement toward a goal.

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.

The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.

(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics:

An instance of riding.

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage compare ethnic group. See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.

(informal) A vehicle.

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.

An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage compare species, subspecies.

A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.

A saddle horse.

(zoology) Subspecies.

(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

(animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.

(music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.

An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.

A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.

(obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.

(slang) An act of sexual intercourse

(obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

Ancestry.

To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.

A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

(intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).

To be supported in motion; to rest.

(transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).

To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

(intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

To raze.

To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.

To overlap (each other); - said of bones or fractured fragments.

To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

A saddle horse.

To run a race with.

A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

A root.

A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else;

The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.

A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement

Company; herd; breed.

Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions;

A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.

Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle;

Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.

Continue undisturbed and without interference;

Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.

Move like a floating object;

A progress; a course; a movement or progression.

Harass with persistent criticism or carping;

Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.

Be sustained or supported or borne;

Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.

Have certain properties when driven;

Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

Be contingent on;

A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.

Lie moored or anchored;

The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.

Sit on and control a vehicle;

A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.

Climb up on the body;

Any competition;

Ride over, along, or through;

People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock;

Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot;

A contest of speed;

Copulate with;

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

(biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species

A canal for a current of water

Step on it;

Compete in a race;

To work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others;

Cause to move fast or to rush or race;