He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
Dryden.
6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a
horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or
straining at the cables. -- To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently.
-- To ride out. (a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer.
(b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] -- To ride to hounds, to ride
behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.
Syn. -- Drive. -- Ride, Drive. Ride originally meant (and is so used
throughout the English Bible) to be carried on horseback or in a
vehicle of any kind. At present in England, drive is the word applied
in most cases to progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park,
etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a horse. Johnson seems
to sanction this distinction by giving "to travel on horseback" as the
leading sense of ride; though he adds "to travel in a vehicle" as a
secondary sense. This latter use of the word still occurs to some
extent; as, the queen rides to Parliament in her coach of state; to
ride in an omnibus.
"Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest,
after breakfast that morning.
W. Black.
Ride, v. t. 1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to
ride a bicycle.
[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind.
Milton.