"ride a boat" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in a variety of situations, such as when you are describing a leisure activity or providing travel advice. For example, "We spent the weekend riding boats around the lake."
Holding up huge spear-like paintbrushes, they ride a boat shaped like a huge pigeon while painting a huge cartoon sky.
They were instructed to respond to questions about off-label use of the drugs by saying, "Yes, we are indicated for cancer pain, but wouldn't you agree that pain is pain?" The company sent Schneider's physician assistant to New York for an "Actiq consultants meeting"; it paid for her to stay at the W hotel and to ride a boat on the Hudson.
One morning I rode the bus to Pearl Harbor, where I waited for nearly two hours for my chance to ride a boat out into the harbor and look down to where the ghostly shell of the Arizona, sunk in 1941, can be seen eight feet below the surface.
Ride a boat over Lake Atitlán - Head to the town of Panajachel, which borders the lake and a beautiful place to visit.
Before prices catch up with you, go ride a boat on Inle Lake, explore a dark cave pagoda, and catch the sunset reflecting off Shwedagon Paya.
Not long after he made "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," director Mel Stuart recalls young people coming up and saying--with a wink--that they really dug that scary tunnel sequence where the kids ride a boat through the dark, glimpsing horrific images such as a giant centipede crawling across a human face and a chicken getting its head chopped off.
I couldn't imagine riding a boat for three months, much less 30 years as a career seaman.
Remote and wild, the camp is reached by riding a boat up the coast (or occasionally by helicopter).
In his plea deal, Mr. Headley, 49, admits to attending terrorist camps in Pakistan, conducting video surveillance in Mumbai and riding a boat around the city's harbor with a GPS device, noting the coordinates of potential targets.
I went sightseeing and even rode a boat down the Seine, but Paris had become just another big city with lots of people.
You can get to the island by riding a boat from the docks of Windhelm, the easternmost city in Skyrim.
