To ride hard
| (Naut.) | to pitch violently. |
See also: Ride
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"You just have to ride hard, sweat and feel the burn; no excuses.
"I think it's an all-round triathlon today: you need to be able to swim -- my swim wasn't great, I was 5th/6th and I had to move up -- you need to be able to ride hard, tactically and technically, and do a good run at the end.
Rather than compromising the road going abilities of this bike, the off-road configurations have made the Adventurer a really fun and enjoyable bike to ride hard on all types of road surfaces.
They aren't particularly testing as first category climbs go, but expect Aru's Astana team to ride hard to try to draw the sting out of Dumoulin well before the descent which leads to the finish.
They worked well together and had to ride hard to keep Sagan and Van Avermaet, and the 10-man group containing Thomas, at bay in the run-in to the finish.
"When you try to ride hard against it, it makes you groggy," said the 23yearold Oconer in Filipino after logging in one hour, 13 minutes and five seconds.
"We told them their attack was going to ride hard and press, that their middies were going to run through people if they didn't play the body, so we didn't want to get in that emotional back-and- forth battle.''
Having already cycled 35 miles of undulating terrain and into a headwind by this point, few riders have the energy to ride hard up the hill.
In Germany, as we've noted, Radler is a drink for athletes, cyclists for example (the word "radler" means cyclist) who want to ride hard and stop for the occasional lightly alcoholic refreshment that won't trigger a wipeout as soon as they leave the gasthaus.
Samsung Suzuki rider Hopkins took second place in that race but had to ride hard to move through from fifth.
In speaking to the convention assemblage, Heyden, also a Team Little Guy bike rider before being deployed to Iraq, thanked the crowd for cards, letters and packages of support encouraging the league group "to ride hard" to Jacksonville.
"She is a very strong filly and likes to ride hard," said jockey Badel after his win.
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- To refresh the memory
- To regulate a watch
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- To relate one's self
- To renounce probate
- To repeat one's self
- To repeat signals
- To report one's self
- To repossess one's self of
- To resolve a nebula
- To respect the person
- to rest on one's laurels
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- To return to one's muttons
- To reverse an engine
- To revert a series
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- To ride out
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- To ride roughshod
- To ride shank's mare
- to ride the lightning
- To ride the stang
- To ride to hounds
- To rig a purchase
- To rig a ship
- To rig the capstan
- To rig the market
- To right a vessel
- To right the helm
- To ring a peal
- To ring in
- To ring the bells backward
- To ring the changes on
- To ring the changes upon
- To rip out
- To roll about
- To roll one's r's
- To roll one's self
- To roll the eye
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- To reef the paddles
- To refer one's self
- To refresh the memory
- To regulate a watch
- To rein in
- to reinvent the wheel
- To relate one's self
- to rely on the kindness of strangers
- To renounce probate
- To repeat one's self
- To repeat signals
- To report one's self
- To repossess one's self of
- To resolve a nebula
- To respect the person
- to rest on one's laurels
- to rest on one's laurels
- to rest one's eyes
- To rest with
- To return a lead
- To return to one's muttons
- To reverse an engine
- To revert a series
- To rib land
- To ride a hobby
- To ride a portoise
- To ride and tie
- To ride down
- To ride easy
- to ride for a fall
- To ride hard
- to ride hell bent for leather
- to ride hell for leather
- to ride hell-bent for leather
- to ride hellbent for leather
- to ride herd on
- to ride into the sunset
- to ride off into the sunset
- to ride one's hobbyhorse
- to ride one's hoby horse
- to ride one's hoby-horse
- To ride out
- To ride post
- To ride roughshod
- to ride roughshod over
- To ride shank's mare
- to ride the lightning
- To ride the stang
- To ride to hounds
- To rig a purchase
- To rig a ship
- To rig the capstan
- To rig the market
- To right a vessel
- To right the helm
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