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
Pictures: National pride grips the UAE
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.
Biker club in need of help for baby aid
Stirling Active Travel Hub will hold the night light ride around Stirling at 5.30pm.
Safe cycling in the dark
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.
Ann's 1,500 mile charity rides
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.
Police poke fun at gang after pizza men attack
A MONKEY bike used by John Lennon to ride around his country estate has sold for PS56,250 at auction.
Lennon's old monkey bike goes for PS56k
"I was in Nusa Penida last Saturday enjoying a scooter ride around the island with my girlfriend, Judy, on the back.
Volcano drama; TEESSIDER TELLS OF ERUPTION IN BALI
CLWYD'S young farmers emerged saddle-sore but triumphant from a 128-mile sponsored bike ride around the county.
Clwyd's young farmers go through the pain barrier
A TERMINALLY ill kidney cancer patient arrives in Cardiff today on his way towards completing an epic 5,000-mile motorcycle ride around Britain.
Terminally ill stops off on bike trek
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.
It's pedal power to the people as cyclists take over city streets for Coventry Sky Ride
HUNDREDS of cyclists will enjoy a pleasant ride around Coventry this morning without the hassle of traffic clogging the city's roads.
Hundreds join traffic-free ride
Robert and his friend John Day had planned to ride around Britain's coast together, but unfortunately John died in 2005.
Ride in friend's memory
Today families will have the chance to meet Santa and his live reindeers as he takes a sleigh ride around Manor Walks.
Meet the reindeer; NORTH TODAY RETAIL
Simon Best, IAM chief executive, said: "The meet at Bassetts Pole is the second leg of the ride around the British Isles.
Charity tour at biker meet