Meanings (ES + gloss)
andar • cabalgar • caballear • montar • ruar
To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.
I ride to work every day and park the bike outside the office.
pasear • raitear • ruar
To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.
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.
llevar
To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
The cab rode him downtown.
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