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 →

2) A ride is a trip on it: a bus ride, a pony ride. tree →

3) A ride is also a machine at a fair or theme park: the rides. tree →

4) To give someone a ride (lift in the UK) is to take them in your car. tree →

5) To ride on something can mean it depends on it: «Everything rides on this game». tree →

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 →
• Each ride costs 3 tickets. tree →
• He rode for 2 hours. tree →
• How many rides can she take with 15 tickets? tree →
• Always wear a helmet when you ride a bike. tree →
• The roller coaster is the fastest ride at the park. tree →
• Mum gave my friend a ride home. tree →
• Never accept a ride from someone you don't know. tree →
• Have you ever ridden a horse? tree →
• They have still four miles to ride. tree →

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.
• Opossums are marsupials: the tiny babies grow in their mother's pouch and later ride on her back.
• When you ride a pony you are sitting on thousands of years of history.
• Fossils, tests and careful counting beat cartoons and myths, from the Flintstones riding dinosaurs to elephants scared of mice.
• For years people reported street dogs in Moscow riding metro trains between stops to reach places with food.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ride» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.