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To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
(verb-intransitive)
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To travel over a surface: This car rides well.
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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.
(verb-intransitive)
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Nautical To lie at anchor: battleships riding at the mouth of the estuary.
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To seem to float: The moon was riding among the clouds.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.