Definition of handcycle in English:
handcycle
nounˈhan(d)sʌɪk(ə)lˈhan(d)sīk(ə)l
A three-wheeled cycle propelled by the arms rather than the legs, used as an alternative to a conventional bicycle by some disabled people.
he completed the 3,200-mile Around Britain Challenge on a specially designed handcycle
Example sentencesExamples
- Maclean has already made a difference to local wheelchair athletes by donating a handcycle for them to use.
- He also needed a handcycle, which is more or less a bike that wheelchair athletes pedal with their hands.
- Although he now has a state of the art handcycle, which he is using on his journey from Brisbane to Melbourne, he said he still felt sentimental towards his old one.
- He is now preparing to race a handcycle in London 2012.
- The handcycles are the fastest wheelchairs available and you will need to bring a bike helmet if you wish to try your hand at them.
- The NSW Wheelchair Sports Association will have handcycles and basketball chairs for you to try out, plus instructions on specialised rules and tactics.
- He presented the North Coast Sports Council for the Disabled with the handcycle he used in his first Hawaiian Iron Man.
- 'So I thought about how I could help and decided that even though I still feel sentimental about this handcycle that the kids here would use it more,' he said.
- He offered him some free training advice if he bought a handcycle from him.
- Take the One-Off all-terrain handcycle - a low-slung mountain bike.
- With the goal of getting ready for the Hawaii Ironman competition in October of 2004, he dived headlong into a regimen of swimming and road training on both the handcycle and the racing chair.
- He was telling me that they'd borrowed a handcycle from Sydney and would love to get one for the kids but that they were just too expensive,' he said.
- He found a website that sold handcycles.
- This is the handcycle I was in when I completed my first Hawaiian Ironman.