ride

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.
• intransitive verb Sports To participate in a board sport such as snowboarding.
• intransitive verb To travel over a surface.
• intransitive verb To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water.
• intransitive verb Nautical To lie at anchor.
• intransitive verb To seem to float.
• intransitive verb To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.
• intransitive verb To be contingent; depend.
• intransitive verb To continue without interference.
• intransitive verb To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body.
• intransitive verb To sit on and control the movement of.
• intransitive verb Sports To glide or move while standing on or having one's feet attached to (a board, such as a snowboard).
• intransitive verb To travel over, along, or through.
• intransitive verb To be supported or carried on.
• intransitive verb To take part in or do by riding.
• intransitive verb To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried.
• intransitive verb Sports To control (an opponent) in wrestling, usually by holding the opponent down.
• intransitive verb Nautical To keep (a vessel) at anchor.
• intransitive verb To tease or ridicule.
• intransitive verb To harass with persistent carping and criticism.
• intransitive verb To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot.
• noun The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.
• noun A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.
• noun A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.
• noun A means of transportation.
• idiom (ride for a fall) To court danger or disaster.
• idiom (ride herd on) To keep watch or control over.
• idiom (ride high) To experience success.
• idiom (ride shotgun) To guard a person or thing while in transit.
• idiom Slang (ride shotgun) To ride in the front passenger seat of a car or truck.
• idiom (take for a ride) To deceive or swindle.
• idiom (take for a ride) To transport to a place and kill.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A journey on the back of a horse, ass, mule, camel, elephant, or other animal; more broadly, any excursion, whether on the back of an animal, in a vehicle, or by some other mode of conveyance: as, a ride in a wagon or a balloon; a ride on a bicycle or a cow-catcher.
• noun A saddle-horse.
• noun A road intended expressly for riding; a bridlepath; a place for exercise on horseback. Also called riding.
• noun A little stream or brook.
• noun A certain district patrolled by mounted excise officers.
• noun In printing, a fault caused by overlapping: said of leads or rules that slip and overlap, of a kerned type that overlaps or binds a type in a line below, also of a color that impinges on another color in prints of two or more colors.
• noun See compartment line.
• noun The side of a log upon which it rests when being dragged.
• In lawn-bowls, to roll (the ball) with great force.
• To be carried on the back of a horse, ass, mule, camel, elephant, or other animal; specifically, to sit on and manage a horse in motion.
• To be borne along in a vehicle, or in or on any kind of conveyance; be carried in or on a wagon, coach, car, balloon, ship, palanquin, bicycle, or the like; hence, in general, to travel or make progress by means of any supporting and moving agency.
• To be borne in or on a fluid; float; specifically, to lie at anchor.
• To move on or about something.
• To be mounted and borne along; hence, to move triumphantly or proudly.