1869 Echo 21 May 3/4 It is far more easy, and less nervous work, to acquire bicycling than to learn to ride a horse.

1874 Country 1 Oct. 298/1 Surrey Bicycling Club.

1896 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 273 Some..will doubtless see an incongruous feature in the introduction of such sports as bicycling and lawn tennis at the Olympian games.

1922 W. B. Maxwell Spinster of this Parish 107 Miss Verinder..asked if the fashionable craze for bicycling had really reached that distant land [sc. Uruguay].

1963 E. Wilson Jrnl. July in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 282 I had two shots of mirabelle—how it used to pick us up after our bicycling trips and our walks!

2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Nov. r4/1 Employees who car-pool, use public transportation or use people power, such as bicycling.

1870 Sci. Opinion 4 May 409/2 I do not..think it probable that the bicycling public will trouble medical advisers..before entering upon a favourite amusement.

1896 Pick-me-up 22 Aug. 323/1 A great deal of nonsense is talked about the propriety of the skirt for the bicycling woman.

1986 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Trav. in Hyper Reality i. 49 Marine cities and artificial jungles where you can see free-ranging animals, trained dolphins, bicycling parrots, [etc.].

2007 D. Else et al. Walking in Brit. (Lonely Planet) (ed. 3) 107 This [sc. the Cotswold region] is the land of afternoon tea, warm beer and bicycling vicars—it is quintessentially English.