Free ride, freeride, or freeriding may refer to:

Economics

Free-rider problem In economics, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods and common pool resources do not pay for them or under-pay. Free riders may overuse common pool resources by not ...

, the problem of underprovision of non-excludable goods * Freeriding (stocks), buying stocks without money to cover the purchase

Transportation

Fare evasion Fare evasion or fare dodging is the act of travel without payment on public transit. When considered problematic, it is mitigated by revenue protection officers and ticket barriers, staffed or automatic, are in place to ensure only those with va ...

, the act of travel without payment on public transit **

Freighthopping Freighthopping or trainhopping is the act of boarding and riding a freightcar without permission. This activity itself is often considered to be illegal, although this varies by geography. It may be associated with other illegal activities such ...

(fare evasion on trains) **

Stowaways A stowaway or clandestine traveller is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as a ship, an aircraft, a train, cargo truck or bus. Sometimes, the purpose is to get from one place to another without paying for transportation. In other ca ...

Free public transport Free public transport, often called fare-free public transit or zero-fare public transport, is public transport which is fully funded by means other than collecting fares from passengers. It may be funded by national, regional or local governme ...

, public transport fully funded by means other than collecting fares from passengers

Social choice

* Freeriding (voting), a kind of

strategic voting Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's results. Gibbard's theorem shows that no voting system has a single "always-best" strat ...

Sports

Freerider (climb) El Capitan (; ) is a vertical Rock formations in the United States, rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The El Capitan Granite, granite monolith is about from base to summit alo ...

, a climbing route in Yosemite *

Freeriding (winter sport) Freeriding is a style of skiing or snowboarding performed on natural, Snow grooming, un-groomed terrain, without a set course, goals or rules. It evolved throughout the sport's formative years as a contrary response to the highly regimented sty ...

, skiing or snowboarding in natural, un-groomed terrain * Freeride (longboard), a discipline of longboarding *

Freeride (mountain biking) Freeride is a discipline of mountain biking closely related to downhill biking, dirt jumping, freestyle motocross, and freestyle BMX. When riding, a freerider one focuses on tricks, style, and technical trail features. History The original f ...

, a branch of mountain biking * Freeride kayaking * Boulder Freeride, a University of Colorado skiing club *

KTM Freeride The KTM Freeride is a family of types of motorcycles#Off-road, off-road motorcycles produced by the Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM since 2012, with different types of engines, Four-stroke engine, four-stroke, Two-stroke engine, two-stroke an ...

, a model of off-road motorcycle

Media

Film and television

* ''Free Ride'' (TV series), a Fox TV sitcom * ''Free Ride'' (1986 film), a 1986 film * ''Free Ride'' (2013 film) * ''

A Free Ride ''A Free Ride'', also known as ''A Grass Sandwich'', is a stag film of the silent era, considered the earliest extant American Hardcore pornography, hardcore pornographic movie. It depicts a motorist who picks up two women from the roadside and ...

'', a 1915 American pornographic film and the earliest surviving American pornographic film

Music

* ''Free Ride'' (album), a 1977 album by Dizzy Gillespie * ''Free Ride'', a 1978 album by

Marshall Hain Marshall Hain were a British pop-rock duo known for their 1978 hit " Dancing in the City", a UK No. 3 hit single on the UK Singles Chart in mid-1978 and number 3 in Australia. Overview The duo comprised keyboard player Julian Marshall and v ...

* ''Free Ride'', a 2004 album by Carson Cole

Songs

* "Free Ride" (song), a 1973 song by Dan Hartman for the Edgar Winter Group * "Free Ride", a song by Nick Drake on the album '' Pink Moon'' * "Free Ride", a song by Annabelle Chvostek on the album '' Bija'' * "Free Ride", a song by

the Concretes The Concretes were a Swedish indie pop band from Stockholm. History Since their formation in 1995, the Concretes have grown into an eight-piece band. Original members of the band include Victoria Bergsman, Maria Eriksson, and Lisa Milberg. ...

on the album ''Nationalgeographic'' * "Free Ride", a song by Audio Adrenaline on the album ''

Bloom Bloom or blooming may refer to: Science and technology Biology * Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant * Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system * Jellyfish bloom, a collective n ...

'' * "Free Ride", a song by Mock Orange on the album '' First EP'' * "Free Ride", a song by Watashi Wa on the album ''

Eager Seas Watashi Wa is a Christian pop rock band from San Luis Obispo, California on Tooth & Nail Records. in Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Jap ...

'' * "Free Ride", a song by Black Label Society on the album '' Hangover Music Vol. VI'' * "Free Ride", a song by Embrace on the album ''

All You Good Good People "All You Good Good People" is a song by English rock band Embrace, released on the Fierce Panda label as their debut single. Only 1,300 copies were made in 1997, but the airplay received by key radio shows was enough to gain significant recog ...

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