ride up

verb

rode up; ridden up; riding out; rides up

of clothing

: to move up the body as one moves

Her skirt rode up when she sat down.

Examples of ride up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My biggest priority is that the pants need to not ride up uncomfortably or dig into my stomach while sitting for long periods of time — and luckily, Amazon’s fashion department has lots of pants styles that fit this criteria. —Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026

Get a bike and ride across the walking bridge—in Erupcja, where Nel sits and listens to techno, or doesn’t listen to anything at all—then ride up to the public library, get STOR coffee on Tamka, and keep riding towards Królikarnia—or take it down Aleje Jerozolimskie. —Bridget Knowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026

In my mom’s Manhattan, there were ashtrays on every desk, 85-cent taxi rides up Lexington Avenue, and the style icon of the moment was Jackie Kennedy. —Amanda Eyre Ward, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2026

Lee also mentions that her queen-size mattress is pretty high, around 15 inches, and the sheets don’t ride up or bunch on the sides. —Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for ride up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup