[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ride/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [R](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/r/) / ride # ride verb (ride, rides, rode, ridden, riding); noun (a ride, rides) «ride» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To ride is to sit on something and travel on it, like a bike, horse or bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m1) 2. A ride is a trip on it: a bus ride, a pony ride. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m2) 3. A ride is also a machine at a fair or theme park: the rides. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m3) 4. To give someone a ride (lift in the UK) is to take them in your car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m4) 5. To ride on something can mean it depends on it: «Everything rides on this game». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#m5) ### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x1) - Each ride costs 3 tickets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x2) - He rode for 2 hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x3) - How many rides can she take with 15 tickets? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x4) - Always wear a helmet when you ride a bike. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x5) - The roller coaster is the fastest ride at the park. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x6) - Mum gave my friend a ride home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x7) - Never accept a ride from someone you don't know. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x8) - Have you ever ridden a horse? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x9) - They have still four miles to ride. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/#x10) ### 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 Jewish tradition Here it can mean to travel on a chariot or to be carried over high places. In Deuteronomy it describes God lifting Israel up. **Interpretation.** Tradition reads "the high places of the earth" as the good land that God gave Israel. ### Examples - And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him: 'Abrech'; and he set him over all the land of Egypt. (Torah GEN.41.43, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ride/#x1) - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Torah DEU.32.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ride/#x2) - Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance. (Writings JOB.30.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ride/#x3) - And he said: 'Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.' So they made him ride in his chariot. (Prophets 2KI.10.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ride/#x4) - Ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit on rich cloths, and ye that walk by the way, tell of it; (Prophets JDG.5.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ride/#x5) ### 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. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «ride» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ride/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«ride» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ride.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «ride» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ride/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«ride» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/ride.html) on Mova free.