Dictionary Definition
rider
Noun
1 a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a
horse or camel)
2 a clause that is appended to a legislative
bill
3 a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a
bicycle or motorcycle)
4 a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus
or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it [syn:
passenger]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
-er ridePronunciation
- /ˈraɪdə(r)/
- /"raId@(r)/
- Rhymes: -aɪdə(r)
Noun
- one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle
- a provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill
- an amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements
Translations
one who rides
additional provision annexed to a bill
amendment to an entertainer's performance
contract
French
Verb
- wrinkle (to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles)
Extensive Definition
Rider(s) or The rider(s) may refer to:
In people who ride things
- Bike rider, a cyclist
- Horse rider, an equestrian
- Motorbike rider, a motorcyclist
In general usage
- Rider (legislation), an additional provision attached to a bill
- Rider (theater), a part of a performers contract
- Rider University, an American university in New Jersey
- Rider (Fate/Stay Night), a character from the Japanese series Fate/Stay Night
- Rider (Fate/Zero), a character from the Japanese novel Fate/Zero
- Rider (imprint), a publishing imprint of Random House
- Black Riders or Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- Dark Riders (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain team
- Dragon Rider, disambiguation
- Kamen Rider or Masked Rider, a Japanese TV series
- Line Rider, an internet game
- Storm Riders, an Australian 1982 surfing film
- The Storm Riders, a Hong Kong 1998 comic book film
- Storm Riders, characters in Air Gear
rider in French: Rider
rider in Japanese: ライダー
rider in Polish: Jeździec
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
addendum, affix, allonge, appendix, bidet, bill, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, calendar, carriage horse, cart
horse, cavalier,
cavalry horse, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider,
clause, coda, codicil, commentary, companion bills
amendment, cowboy,
cowgirl, cowpuncher, draft horse,
dragnet clause, dray horse, driving horse, enacting clause,
enclitic, envoi, epilogue, equestrian, equestrienne, escalator
clause, fill horse, filler, gaucho, gigster, hack, hackney, hold-up bill, horse
soldier, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseman, horsewoman, hunter, infix, interlineation, interpolation, jockey, joker, jument, knight, lead, leader, marginalia, motion, mount, mounted policeman, note, omnibus bill, pack horse,
palfrey, plow horse,
pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, postboy, postilion, postscript, prefix, privileged question,
proclitic, proviso, puncher, question, remount, riding horse, road
horse, roadster,
roughrider, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, saving clause, scholia, shaft horse,
stalking-horse, steeplechaser, suffix, sumpter, sumpter horse, supplement, tail, thill horse, thiller, trick rider, vaquero, wheeler, wheelhorse, workhorse