Bicycle definition

bīsĭkəl, -sĭ-kəl, -sīkəl
bicycled bicycles bicycling
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To travel over on a bicycle.
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A vehicle consisting of a tubular metal frame mounted on two large, wire-spoked wheels, one behind the other, and equipped with handlebars, a saddlelike seat, and foot pedals.
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To ride or travel on a bicycle.
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A vehicle that has two wheels, one behind the other, a steering handle, and a saddle seat or seats and is usually propelled by the action of a rider’s feet upon pedals.
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The definition of a bicycle is a two-wheeled vehicle with one wheel in front of the other which is propelled using foot pedals.

A two-wheeled vehicle that you pedal is an example of a bicycle.

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Bicycle is defined as to ride a two-wheeled vehicle that you propel forward by pedaling with your feet.

When you ride a two-wheeled vehicle (also called a bicycle), this is an example of a time when you bicycle.

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A traveling block used on a cable in skidding logs.
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The best possible hand in lowball.
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To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
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To carry on or as on a bicycle.
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An exercise bicycle.
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To ride or travel on a bicycle.
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A vehicle consisting of a light frame mounted on two wire-spoked wheels one behind the other and having a seat, handlebars for steering, brakes, and two pedals or a small motor by which it is driven.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
bicycle
Plural:
bicycles

Origin of bicycle

  • Probably bi– -cycle (on the model of tricycle three-wheeled coach)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bi- (“two”) +‎ Ancient Greek κύκλος (kuklos, “circle, wheel”), on the pattern of tricycle. First attested in English in 1868, from French bicyclette (1847). Superseded earlier velocipede.

    From Wiktionary

Bicycle Sentence Examples

  • The boy no doubt inherits a capacity for riding a bicycle, otherwise he could never do so.

  • He ran out to his bicycle and pushed the kickstand back while he peered through the window.

  • The only thing you watch on TV is football and the last 'book' you read was a bicycle magazine.

  • He always was riding around on his bicycle.

  • But never, never, never in his entire life had David Dean felt less like crawling out of his sleeping bag and mounting his bicycle than on the misty Colorado morning of June fifteenth.

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