The phrase "avoid riding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from riding, whether it be a vehicle, animal, or any other context involving riding.
Example: "To ensure your safety during the storm, it is best to avoid riding your bike until the weather improves."
Alternatives: "refrain from riding" or "stay away from riding".
Men and women avoid riding elevators together.
Dr. Berry tries his best to avoid riding indoors — he goes outside to train if it's dry and the temperature is 20 degrees or higher.
It added, "He said not to panic, but not to take a chance if it can be helped — avoid riding the subway if at all possible".
After giving me the once-over, she giggled and advised me to avoid riding in the local hand-pulled rickshaws, as my size could force them to tip over.
"We don't know that there will be more deaths," he argues, before offering an anecdote about a biker who took a three-state detour to avoid riding through Nebraska in a helmet, depriving the state of his spending on food and fuel.
Either you can short a loser that turns up or, in his words, avoid "riding a stock flaming into the earth's mantle".
For the next 12 years, Parks intentionally avoided riding on Blake's bus, walking whenever she could, despite her chronic bursitis.
Newspapers have been more direct in their criticism of any army which has strenuously avoided riding to the government's rescue.
Fox-Pitt explained the gall, or lesion had occurred during training and that he had avoided riding the horse more than was absolutely necessary in order to allow the skin condition to heal, but it was an understandable worry that was hardly helped the pair's performance in the dressage ring.
The subway I so steadfastly avoided riding for the past 22 years, that when I recently told a friend I had taken the subway to meet him, he replied, "How did you know where it was?" subway.
Those who often require schedule flexibility avoid ride-sharing services.
