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
• baiting
• ridiculing
• heckling
• picking on
• torturing
• hassling
• hazing
• needling
• making game of
• annoying
• trying
• plaguing
• testing
• irritating
• deriding
• gibing
• getting
• spiting
• itching
• jeering
• burning (up)
• bullying
• dogging
• troubling
• griping
• pestering
• chafing
• bugging
• goading
• hacking (off)
• fretting
• nettling
• ruffling
• riling
• frosting
• putting out
• aggravating
• harassing
• gnawing (at)
• grating
• tormenting
• nagging
• agitating
• badgering
• disturbing
• exasperating
• persecuting
• galling
• rasping
• terrorizing
• hounding
• 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
• 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of riding

Baltzor and her husband Keith, had just finished riding a bunch of about 150 hundred head of their cattle down Highway 205 on horseback from another pasture. — Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026

JenChan’s floor manager, Maxx Reginello, couldn’t work for a few weeks last year after he was hit while riding his bike home after a double shift on Easter. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

The animal-print two-piece, traced with glittering piping, was worn with a black crop top, knee-high black leather riding boots, and a coordinating Chanel flap bag. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026

Volkswagen Make no mistake, Volkswagen has a lot riding on the ID. — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026

In new programs, interactions with horses go beyond riding to meditation, yoga and therapy that practitioners say can help restore life balance. — Ondine Cohane, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Freight that switched modes mid-year is riding on prices agreed before the truck market tightened until the 2027 bids reset them. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Fittingly, the presentation featured models walking a path that circled around 10 horses inside a riding hall in the Bois de Boulogne. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

The contest of networks will be nearly global, waged in multiple domains, with huge stakes riding on the outcome. — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026