Ride vs. Raid — What's the Difference?

To be carried or conveyed, as in a vehicle or on horseback.

A surprise attack by a small armed force.

(Sports) To participate in a board sport such as snowboarding.

A sudden forcible entry into a place by police

To travel over a surface

An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.

To move by way of an intangible force or impetus; move as if on water

A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.

(Nautical) To lie at anchor

An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock.

To seem to float

An attempt by speculators to drive stock prices down by coordinated selling.

To be sustained or supported on a pivot, axle, or other point.

To make a raid on.

To be contingent; depend

To conduct a raid or participate in one.

To continue without interference

(military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

To work or move from the proper place, especially on the body

An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.

To sit on and control the movement of

(sports) An attacking movement.

(Sports) To glide or move while standing on or having one's feet attached to (a board, such as a snowboard).

(Internet) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.

To travel over, along, or through

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

To be supported or carried on

(transitive) To engage in a raid against.

To take part in or do by riding

(transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.

To cause to ride, especially to cause to be carried

(transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.

(Sports) To control (an opponent) in wrestling, usually by holding the opponent down.

A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

(Nautical) To keep (a vessel) at anchor.

An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.

To tease or ridicule.

To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

To harass with persistent carping and criticism.

A sudden short attack

To keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot

An attempt by speculators to defraud investors

The act or an instance of riding, as in a vehicle or on an animal.

Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on;

A path made for riding on horseback, especially through woodlands.

Enter someone else's territory and take spoils;

A device, such as one at an amusement park, that one rides for pleasure or excitement.

Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock;

A means of transportation

Search for something needed or desired;

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

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

To transport (someone) in a vehicle.

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

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

(transitive) To traverse by riding.

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

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

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

To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

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

(intransitive) To rely, depend (on).

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

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

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

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

To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.

(music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.

An instance of riding.

(informal) A vehicle.

An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

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

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

A saddle horse.

(Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.

(music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.

A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.

(slang) An act of sexual intercourse

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.

To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

To be supported in motion; to rest.

To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

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

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

The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

A saddle horse.

A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else;

A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement

Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions;

Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle;

Continue undisturbed and without interference;

Move like a floating object;

Harass with persistent criticism or carping;

Be sustained or supported or borne;

Have certain properties when driven;

Be contingent on;

Lie moored or anchored;

Sit on and control a vehicle;

Climb up on the body;

Ride over, along, or through;

Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot;

Copulate with;