Ride vs Trip - What's the difference?

Trip is a synonym of ride.

In intransitive terms the difference between ride and trip

is that ride is of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body) while trip is to journey, to make a trip.

As verbs the difference between ride and trip

is that ride is to transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc while trip is to fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.

As nouns the difference between ride and trip

is that ride is an instance of riding while trip is a journey; an excursion or jaunt.

As an adjective trip is

of or relating to trips.

ride

English

Verb

(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :

Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.

* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :

I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

* 1923 , "Mrs. Rinehart", Time , 28 Apr 1923:

It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.

* 2010 , The Guardian , 6 Oct 2010:

The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.

(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :

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.

* 1960 , "Biznelcmd", Time , 20 Jun 1960:

In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.

The cab rode him downtown.

Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.

* Dryden

Men once walked where ships at anchor ride .

* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :

By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home

(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.

The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.

* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :

Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].

* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:

She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.

(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:

“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.

Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

* 2008 , Ann Kessel, The Guardian , 27 Jul 2008:

In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.

To rely, depend (on).

* 2006 , "Grappling with deficits", The Economist , 9 Mar 2006:

With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.

Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

* 2001 , Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer , 16 Sep 2001:

She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

* Jonathan Swift

The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.

To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

* Sir Walter Scott

The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.

Derived terms

* ride bareback * ride bitch * ride herd on * ride one's luck * ride roughshod over * ride shotgun * ride tall in the saddle * ride the rails * ride the pine * ride with the punches

Noun

(en noun)

An instance of riding.

Can I have a ride on your bike?

(informal) A vehicle.

That is a nice ride you are driving.

An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

Can you give me a ride ?

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

(UK, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.

(Wright)

Derived terms

* bike-and-ride * free ride * go along for the ride * joy ride * Nantucket sleigh ride * ride cymbal * white-knuckle ride

Anagrams

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trip

English

Noun

(en noun)

A journey; an excursion or jaunt.

* (Alexander Pope)

I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.

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A stumble or misstep.

(figurative) An error; a failure; a mistake.

* (John Milton)

Imperfect words, with childish trips .

* Harte

Each seeming trip , and each digressive start.

A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.

A faux pas, a social error.

Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.

(engineering) A mechanical or electrical cutout device.

A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.

(obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.

* (Geoffrey Chaucer)

A trip of cheese.

The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.

* (John Dryden)

And watches with a trip his foe to foil.

* South

It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

(nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.

(obsolete) A troop of men; a host.

(Robert of Brunne)

A flock of wigeons.

(Webster 1913)

Derived terms

* bad trip * boat trip * business trip * day trip * ego trip * fam trip * field trip * guilt trip * head trip * power trip * road trip * round trip * trip down memory lane * trip hop * trippy * trip to the woodshed

Verb

To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.

Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.

To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.

A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5

Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.

To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc.

* John Locke

till his tongue trip

* South

A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.

* Dryden

Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip , but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.

(obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.

* Shakespeare

These her women can trip me if I err.

To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.

When we get into the factory, trip the lights.

To be activated, as by a signal or an event.

The alarm system tripped , throwing everyone into a panic.

To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.

After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.

To journey, to make a trip.

Last summer we tripped to the coast.

(dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.

* Milton

Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.

* Dryden

She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.

(nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.

(nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

Derived terms

* trip out * trip over * tripper * trip the light fantastic * trip up * tripwire

Adjective

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(poker slang) Of or relating to .

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