verb

• (ambitransitive) 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."
• (ambitransitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
  "Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore."
• (transitive, informal, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
  "The cab rode him downtown."
• (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
  "Why name I ev'ry Place where Youths abound? / 'Tis Loſs of Time; and a too fruitful Ground. / The Bajan Baths, where Ships at Anchor ride, / And wholeſome Streams from Sulphur Fountains glide: […]"

noun

• (informal) A vehicle.
  "That's a nice ride; what did it cost?"
• (UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
  ""Could you see the ride that goes down and round the point of the woods...?" "I could see down it till it went round the corner."... "...Then Mr Fawcett comes down the ride, rushing his chair along like it was a racing car... He carried on down the ride. Next thing Miss Harmsworth comes down the ride from the field...""
• (UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.
  "Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride."
• (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
  "Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M."