"ride on a float" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to describe participating in a parade, like this: "Every year, I enjoy riding on a float during the Fourth of July parade."
City councilman Julian Castro, then the front-runner, sent his twin brother to ride on a float in his stead.
Within an hour's ride on a float plane, Mr. Lyons said, "you can be in untouched wilderness".
Dodgers players from throughout the years will ride on a float in the 119th Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena on Jan . 1
When I received an invitation to ride on a float at this year's Mardi Gras, my excitement level was so great that at first I frightened my boyfriend, who mistook my enthusiasm for the receipt of bad news.
The trip was classically Ozarkian in its pleasant mellowness — no rapids over Class I, scenery that was pretty but not dramatic, and far more animals than humans on the water, like a dragon fly that had hitched a ride on a floating leaf and cruised by me, and the dozens of turtles that sunned themselves on whatever tip of a fallen tree that happened to be sticking out of the water.
The men rode on a float called "Black to the Future: Broad Channel 2098".
In the parade, the men rode on a float called "Black to the Future: Broad Channel 2098".
After making its public debut riding on a float up Fifth Avenue, it will be hauled to Battery Park City.
Ms. Hill remained a spokeswoman for the houses for years, appearing at house openings and riding on a float celebrating the charity's 10th anniversary in the 1984 Rose Parade.
The judge ruled in June 2003 that city officials had violated the constitutional free speech rights of the men, who rode on a float that included a spoof of the murder of a black man in Texas in 1998.
The three men -- a former police officer, Joseph Locurto, and two former firefighters, Jonathan Walters and Robert Steiner -- dressed in blackface and ate fried chicken and watermelon as they rode on a float called "Black to the Future: Broad Channel 2098".
