Synonyms of riding

riding

verb

present participle of ride

1

as in teasing

to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults

that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teasing
• taunting
• mocking
• bothering
• ridiculing
• baiting
• heckling
• torturing
• picking on
• hassling
• hazing
• needling
• annoying
• making game of
• trying
• plaguing
• testing
• irritating
• jibing
• getting
• deriding
• gibing
• bullying
• spiting
• itching
• jeering
• troubling
• dogging
• burning (up)
• griping
• pestering
• chafing
• bugging
• harassing
• goading
• hacking (off)
• fretting
• nettling
• ruffling
• tormenting
• riling
• frosting
• putting out
• aggravating
• grating
• gnawing (at)
• nagging
• disturbing
• badgering
• agitating
• persecuting
• exasperating
• galling
• rasping
• hounding
• terrorizing
• irking
• vexing
• narking
• beleaguering
• perturbing
• discomforting
• hagriding
• browbeating
• bedeviling
• piquing
• peeving
• hectoring
• harrying
• aggrieving

2

as in kidding

to make fun of in a good-natured way

his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday

Synonyms & Similar Words

• teasing
• kidding
• joking
• roasting
• razzing
• ribbing
• rallying
• chaffing
• jiving
• goofing on
• bantering
• joshing
• taking the mickey out of
• funning
• fooling
• stringing along
• wisecracking
• jesting
• jollying
• quipping
• yucking
• yukking
• gagging
• japing

3

as in hovering

to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air

a condor riding high in the sky

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hovering
• sailing
• floating
• swimming
• gliding
• drifting
• hanging
• bobbing
• wafting
• dangling
• poising
• suspending
• rafting
• buoying
• ballooning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• settling
• sinking
• plunging
• diving
• lunging
• dipping
• immersing
• submerging
• submersing

4

as in depending

to be determined by, based on, or subject (to)

our plan for the party rides on whether he can come

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depending
• hanging
• turning
• basing
• staying
• hinging
• resting
• establishing
• founding
• grounding