bicycle
(baɪsɪkəl )
Word forms: bicycles , bicycling, bicycled
1. countable noun A2
A bicycle is a vehicle with two wheels which you ride by sitting on it and pushing two pedals with your feet. You steer it by turning a bar that is connected to the front wheel.
Synonyms: bike, cycle, racer, mountain bike
2. verb
If you bicycle somewhere, you cycle there. [old-fashioned]
I bicycled on towards the sea. [VERB adverb/preposition]
Synonyms: cycle
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You don't expect to see a stamp collector, a bicycle courier or a thirtysomething desperate for a date.
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A bicycle courier has been awarded holiday pay in the latest employment tribunal case involving the socalled gig economy.
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While competing in local races, he runs a failing cycle shop and has to supplement his income as a bicycle courier.
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The love notes were scrolled and bottled, marked with hand-stitched monogrammed tags, and hand-delivered by bicycle courier to the homes and businesses of the recipients.
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The only ones wearing masks are the odd bicycle couriers, and that's just to ward off exhaust fumes.
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There's a good chance that your car door or your bicycle frame started life as a shovelful of earth there.
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Cops were called after he threw a bicycle frame at a window and tried to break down a door.
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Remove the wheel from the bicycle frame.
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These were ahead of their time as the engines were not just fixed on to a bicycle frame.
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Most motorized bicycles are based or derived from standard general-purpose bicycle frame designs and technologies, although exceptions abound.
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Keep little heads safe with a fun bicycle helmet, available in shark, toucan, pink rabbit, tiger and chipmunk.
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It's a good idea to take your own bicycle helmet.
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The failure to wear a bicycle helmet?
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A study found that, worn for 25 minutes every other day, a laser unit (which looks a little like a bicycle helmet) brought about a 37% increase in growth.
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For example, a bicycle helmet must protect against blunt impact forces from the wearer's head striking the road.
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In the eastbound lane, the sharrow guides cyclists into a bicycle lane that curves so as to intersect the rails at a 90-degree angle.
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The bicycle lane and taxi stop will have to be removed.
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The road has two lanes of traffic in each direction, together with sidewalks and a bicycle lane/path.
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There visitors will find standardized stalls and a very long bicycle lane.
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Circa 2005, some 2.5 km of the road's northern section was widened to two lanes southbound and a bicycle lane added for northbound traffic.
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With the efficiency of a seasoned handyman, he cuts through the wire bicycle lock binding the flowers to a stake in the ground.
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The thieves used bolt cutters to break bicycle locks securing the prams.
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Thus like other security equipment, bicycle locks must compromise between security, portability and cost.
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Before writing, he worked as a bicycle mechanic, carpenter, crab fisherman, and letterpress printer.
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This exposure to bicycle mechanics helped develop a keen interest and skills in mechanical devices.
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It encourages knowledge exchange and collaboration between its members, who include programmers, web developers, electronic engineers, digital artists, practitioners from the digital humanities, bicycle mechanics, and other tech related fields.
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The site was formerly occupied by a football court and public bicycle park.
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It includes a two-level gymnasium and 280 secured basement bicycle parks.
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This includes a wide assortment of arrangements such as lockers, stands, manned or unmanned bicycle parks, as well as bike parking facilities within workplaces to facilitate bicycle commuting.
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Daily bicycle rental and organized cycling holidays provide an up-close look at the countryside.
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It also has shops, restaurants and facilities such as a bicycle rental service.
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In some cities a public bicycle rental programme has been implemented which allows travellers to get to and (more usually) from a train station.
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The cities that have implemented its bicycle rental systems are listed below.
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There are four free bicycle rental houses on the 101.8 km long bicycle road.
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The government's much-hyped bicycle repair scheme was branded a shambles yesterday after being suspended due to overwhelming demand.
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Up to 50 homeless people come daily to take part in activities including football, art therapy and a bicycle repair workshop.
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But the government itself has recognised there are some retailers that are too important to the nation's wellbeing to be forced to shut, including bicycle repair shops and even off-licences.
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He lived a life of financial hardship working for many years at various bicycle repair shops.
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Medical support and emergency bicycle repair services are normally available as well.
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However, the lively city centre is just a short walk — or even faster bicycle ride — away, across unspoilt fenland.
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Yes, if you are a chronic asthmatic with one cancerous lung and you go for a long uphill bicycle ride, you will experience a shortness of breath.
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We had met on a bicycle ride.
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Their ceremony turned out to be on the same day as a bicycle ride through central London.
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Activities include riding, calf-roping lessons, archery, guided historic walking tours, adventure hikes, bicycle rides, off-road adventures and mustang training.
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This hardware marks your graduation from civvy bicycle rider to serious cyclist.
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The bicycle rider can also be called boda-boda.
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One analogy would be a skateboard rider and a bicycle rider travelling side by side along the road.
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He started as a vaudeville trick bicycle rider that performed a mid-air forward somersault.
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When he passed a bicycle rider more than once, he suddenly realised that this road must be a full circle.
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A bicycle route runs eastwest through the community.
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Cities that incorporate bicycle routes have a higher percentage of bicycle commuters.
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There are also about 290km mi of signed on-street bicycle routes.
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A major non-historic addition to the trail system of the park was the paving of bicycle routes in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Bicycle routes have been specified outside the nature reserve in nearby forests.
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It would perhaps be stretching things to say that the bicycle seat was on fire.
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There have been a melted car and a combusted bicycle seat.
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Brown did it perched on a bicycle seat, and in what she describes as 'intense, sharp, burning pain' in her feet.
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Look left from where we are standing and you see, through floor-to-ceiling glass, a courtyard filled with strange sculptures that resemble bicycle seats on springs.
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Bicycle seats, for example, need to be comfortable and thus their form will follow ergonomic requirements closely.
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It sounds like it was played on bicycle spokes.
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The only remaining engine noise was a rhythmic rumbling and rattling, like a stick being held against moving bicycle spokes.
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New forms of art evolved in the mines and townships: a dynamic art using everything from plastic strips to bicycle spokes.
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Yet almost all categories have shown a fall apart from shoplifting, pickpocketing and bicycle theft.
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Crimes in this group includes theft, theft from a vehicle, bicycle theft or residential burglary.
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Domestic burglary, shoplifting, fraud, forgery and bicycle thefts rose.
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Domestic burglary, shoplifting, fraud and forgery and even bicycle thefts rose as the country entered the economic downturn.
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In addition, 70 per cent of bicycle thefts and 76 per cent of all street theft and pickpocketing did not get further than an initial scoping inquiry.
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There are even plans to turn his story into a documentary film as well as a novel - a bicycle thief as the new dark and subversive antihero.
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The macabre enterprise was brought to light during a raid on a gang of electric bicycle thieves.
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Presumably if he had two carloads of protection officers with him on his 'unexpected' cycle ride, he would be less likely to fall victim to entirely-tobe-expected bicycle thieves.
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And not worry about the bicycle thieves?
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The parents sequester themselves in the park, fearful of germs, bicycle thieves, regular schooling and, most of all, action.
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If nothing else, do a bicycle tour, which works up an appetite and fills the day.
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Their early bicycle tour narratives were better received than their mountaineering books.
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Then there's golf, bicycle tours, fencing and weight training.
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There are two independent long distance bicycle tours.
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The streets and the flat countryside are ideal for bicycle tours.
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Last month a bicycle trail winding through the reserve's 250 acres was launched, enabling visitors to explore areas they may otherwise miss.
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The track was largely converted into a walking and bicycle trail.
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The municipality plans to open a hiking/bicycle trail from the town center to the park's visitor center in 2014.
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Of this amount, $70,000 was set aside for preliminary engineering studies on the 10.5 mile (16.9 km) bicycle trail.
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There are 21.5 miles of hiking trail, 10 miles of cross-country ski trails, a 2-mile bicycle trail and a 4-mile canoe trail.
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Bicycle travel became very popular around 1885 with the development of the modern bicycle configuration which we still see in wide use today.
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Mechanized transport was still fairly limited so bicycle travel was relied upon heavily.
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In the civilian world, the long tradition of mixed terrain bicycle travel championed by the military has been transformed into civilian adventure travel.
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The roads at the time were not ideal for bicycle travel.
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Focusing on freedom of travel and efficiency over varied surfaces, mixed terrain bicycle travel has a storied past, one closely linked with warfare.
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A narrow bicycle tyre cuts through surface water and makes contact with the road.
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Along the bonnet, a zigzag of thin, dusty tread marks traced the improbable dance of a bicycle tyre.
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Most gases heat up when compressed, as you can feel when you pump up a bicycle tyre, and cool down when they expand.
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When ridden by two cyclists, the work would scatter continuous bicycle tyre prints into the audience.
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When you hear the hum of bicycle tyres approaching from behind, put the mask on and turn around.
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The 13in hole will eventually be widened to 26in - the size of a standard bicycle wheel - providing the miners with a means of escape.
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Can a bicycle wheel upside down on a stool be a masterpiece?
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In 1913, who invented the 'readymade' by fixing a bicycle wheel to a stool?
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But the strangest thing was dark rays beamed across the rainbow like the spokes of a bicycle wheel, converging into a spot on the horizon.
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The mission to winch them to safety began early yesterday using two capsules no wider than a bicycle wheel.
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The macabre enterprise was brought to light during a raid on a gang of electric bicycle thieves.
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He cycles down narrow city alleys, or whirs along on his electric bicycle with mail bags in his basket.
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My lockdown lunch for one arrived promptly at 12.30, courtesy of a smiling courier in gloves and mask, aboard an electric bicycle with a front-mounted cool box.
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An electric bicycle with just enough power to make a part-timer feel they can mix it with the peloton.
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Why do not more people use an electric bicycle?
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Also consider a folding bicycle, as most lack crossbars altogether - and are also easier to transport by car.
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It didn't: his folding bicycle was considered too quirky.
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For some years already he had been researching the idea of a truly effective folding bicycle.
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A folding scooter can be more easily carried than a folding bicycle or even a portable bicycle.
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Each of these were noted to be distinctive design decisions that another manufacturer could change without compromising the ability to create a functional folding bicycle.
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She had this whole solar-powered sound system that she had hooked-up to this old quad-bike, a four-wheeled pedal bicycle.
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Electrically assisted pedal bicycles are a form of hybrid drive.
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Paraplegic, quadriplegic and other impairments that preclude use of a leg pedalled bicycle.
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Transmissions are also used on pedal bicycles, fixed machines, and anywhere rotational speed and torque must be adapted.
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Pedal bicycles date from the 1860s.
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To get around, you can use horse drawn carriages, known as cidomos, or rent a bicycle.
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Rent a bicycle and enjoy miles of cycling trails through scenic villages and marshland, explore local tributaries via kayak, canoe or paddleboard or go crabbing in the bay.
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Anyone with an identification card can rent a bicycle free of charge.
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He rented a bicycle in order to be able to move around more effectively.
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The case against a suspected thief collapsed after police sold off the stolen bicycle.
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This approach has reputedly increased the stolen bicycle recovery rate to more than 40%.
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Haywire then escapes on his own on a stolen bicycle.
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Translations:
Chinese: 自行车
Japanese: 自転車
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