ride around

ride around

1. To drive a vehicle or ride an animal in a meandering or aimless manner. A noun or pronoun can be used between "ride" and "around." Part of the whole prom experience is riding around in a stretch limousine, feeling for a night like you're a celebrity! We took the horses and went riding around our grandfather's huge estate. We loved riding our bikes around as kids, going nowhere in particular for hours on end.
2. To be carried around on someone's shoulders or back. A noun or pronoun can be used between "ride" and "around." Each of the kids wanted a turn riding around on my back, so I was pretty sore by the end of it! My son loves going up on my shoulders and riding me around the back yard like I'm a horse.
See also: around, ride
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • ride about
  • ride about (something)
  • ride hard and put (something) away wet
  • ride hard and put (something) up wet
  • rode hard and put away wet
  • rode hard and put up wet
  • ride
  • after a fashion
  • thanks for the ride
  • thank you for the ride
References in periodicals archive
Summary: One only has to take a ride around town to witness the UAE pride permeating the air
This Christmas they have teamed up with Ronald McDonald House to hold a raffle in aid of both charities which will support their Miles for Smiles motorcycle ride around Ireland next year.
Stirling Active Travel Hub will hold the night light ride around Stirling at 5.30pm.
FLT Lt Ann Lyon, a part-time officer of the Air Cadets at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College in Woodhouse, has just completed a unique charity bike ride around the UK.
Now we are not talking 1920s Al Caponetype gangs, or 1960s London and The Krays, and the likes of Mr Escobar would turn in his grave if he knew the modern-day gangs were a group of lower-end teenagers that ride around on bikes throwing stones at pizza delivery men and their cars.
A MONKEY bike used by John Lennon to ride around his country estate has sold for PS56,250 at auction.
"I was in Nusa Penida last Saturday enjoying a scooter ride around the island with my girlfriend, Judy, on the back.
CLWYD'S young farmers emerged saddle-sore but triumphant from a 128-mile sponsored bike ride around the county.
A TERMINALLY ill kidney cancer patient arrives in Cardiff today on his way towards completing an epic 5,000-mile motorcycle ride around Britain.
Coventry hosted a Sky Ride on Sunday which attracted an estimated 6,000 lycra-clad cycling enthusiasts all eager to complete a 5.5km bicycle ride around the city centre.
HUNDREDS of cyclists will enjoy a pleasant ride around Coventry this morning without the hassle of traffic clogging the city's roads.
Robert and his friend John Day had planned to ride around Britain's coast together, but unfortunately John died in 2005.
Today families will have the chance to meet Santa and his live reindeers as he takes a sleigh ride around Manor Walks.
Simon Best, IAM chief executive, said: "The meet at Bassetts Pole is the second leg of the ride around the British Isles.