means To sit on or in something that carries you along, or the journey itself taken on such a thing.

from From Old English rīdan, 'to sit and be carried, to move forward,' with deep roots across the Germanic languages — a cousin of Old Norse ríða and German reiten. Linguists trace it back further to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to move, set out,' the same restless impulse that may underlie words like 'road.' For most of its life the word meant a horse beneath you; only later did it climb into carriages, trains, cars, and finally the everyday ask, 'need a ride?'