ride the bench

1. 1.

   be out of the game

   “Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game”

   Synonymswarm the bench

   Broaderidle

   sport

Questions about ride the bench

What does ride the bench mean?

ride the bench means "be out of the game".

What is another word for ride the bench?

Close synonyms include warm the bench. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ride the bench a common word?

ride the bench is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.