Ride vs. Rode — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ride and Rode
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Ride
To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
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Rode
(of a woodcock) fly on a regular circuit in the evening as a territorial display, making sharp calls and grunts
Woodcock regularly rode in favourable places
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Ride
(Sports) To participate in a board sport such as snowboarding.
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Rode
A rope, especially one securing an anchor or trawl.
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Ride
To travel over a surface
This car rides well.
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Rode
Past tense of ride.
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Ride
To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water
The President rode into office on a tide of discontent.
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Rode
A cable, chain, or rope, especially one attached to the anchor of a small boat.
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Ride
(Nautical) To lie at anchor
Battleships riding at the mouth of the estuary.
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Rode
Redness; complexion.
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Ride
To seem to float
The moon was riding among the clouds.
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Rode
See Rood, the cross.
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Ride
To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.
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Ride
To be contingent; depend
The final outcome rides on the results of the election.
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Ride
To continue without interference
Let the matter ride.
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Ride
To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body
Pants that ride up.
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Ride
To sit on and control the movement of
Rode a motorcycle to town.
Ride a horse to the village.
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Ride
(Sports) To glide or move while standing on or having one's feet attached to (a board, such as a snowboard).
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Ride
To travel over, along, or through
Ride the highways.
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Ride
To be supported or carried on
A swimmer riding the waves.
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Ride
To take part in or do by riding
He rode his last race.
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Ride
To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried
The police rode him down to the station.
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Ride
(Sports) To control (an opponent) in wrestling, usually by holding the opponent down.
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Ride
(Nautical) To keep (a vessel) at anchor.
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Ride
To tease or ridicule.
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Ride
To harass with persistent carping and criticism.
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Ride
To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
Don't ride the clutch or the brakes.
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Ride
The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.
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Ride
A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.
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Ride
A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.
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Ride
A means of transportation
Waiting for her ride to come.
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Ride
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
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Ride
To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
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Ride
To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
The cab rode him downtown.
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Ride
(intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
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Ride
To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.
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Ride
(transitive) To traverse by riding.
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Ride
(transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
How many races have you ridden this year?
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Ride
(intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
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Ride
To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
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Ride
To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
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Ride
(intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
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Ride
(intransitive) To rely, depend (on).
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Ride
(intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
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Ride
(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
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Ride
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
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Ride
(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
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Ride
To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
Vocal riding
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Ride
(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
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Ride
An instance of riding.
Can I have a ride on your bike?
We took the horses for an early-morning ride in the woods.
Go for a quick ride
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Ride
(informal) A vehicle.
That's a nice ride; what did it cost?
Pimp my ride
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Ride
An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
The kids went on all the rides
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Ride
A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
Can you give me a ride home?
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Ride
(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
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Ride
A saddle horse.
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Ride
(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
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Ride
(music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
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Ride
A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
That story was a ride from start to finish.
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Ride
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse
I gave my boyfriend a ride before breakfast.
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Ride
To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way.
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him.
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Ride
To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants.
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Ride
To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
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Ride
To be supported in motion; to rest.
Strong as the exletreeOn which heaven rides.
On whose foolish honestyMy practices ride easy!
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Ride
To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
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Ride
To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
"Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning.
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Ride
To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the airIn whirlwind.
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Ride
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
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Ride
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
Tue only men that safe can rideMine errands on the Scottish side.
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Ride
To overlap (each other); - said of bones or fractured fragments.
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Ride
The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
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Ride
A saddle horse.
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Ride
A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
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Ride
A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else;
He took the family for a drive in his new car
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Ride
A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
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Ride
Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions;
She never sat a horse!
Did you ever ride a camel?
The girl liked to drive the young mare
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Ride
Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle;
I ride to work in a bus
He rides the subway downtown every day
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Ride
Continue undisturbed and without interference;
Let it ride
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Ride
Move like a floating object;
The moon rode high in the night sky
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Ride
Harass with persistent criticism or carping;
The children teased the new teacher
Don't ride me so hard over my failure
His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
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Ride
Be sustained or 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
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Ride
Have certain properties when driven;
This car rides smoothly
My new truck drives well
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Ride
Be contingent on;
The outcomes rides on the results of the electin
Your grade will depends on your homework
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Ride
Lie moored or anchored;
Ship rides at anchor
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Ride
Sit on and control a vehicle;
He rides his bicycle to work every day
She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town
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Ride
Climb up on the body;
Shorts that ride up
This skirt keeps riding up my legs
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Ride
Ride over, along, or through;
Travel the highways of America
Ride the freeways of California
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Ride
Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot;
Don't ride the clutch!
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Ride
Copulate with;
The bull was riding the cow
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