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单词 unicycle
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Definition of unicycle in English:

unicycle

noun ˈjuːnɪsʌɪk(ə)lˈjunəˌsaɪk(ə)l
  • A cycle with a single wheel, typically used by acrobats.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's right, but he failed to mention everything else: dancing, bands, a spelling bee, zombies, unicycles - a full-out carnival!
    • Finding a stick isn't a problem, since players don't play using one of those tall unicycles you may have seen in a circus.
    • There were dykes on bikes, on unicycles, and in wheelchairs; most of them were on foot, though.
    • I think the people I know who ride unicycles already have quite enough mental capabilities, thank you.
    • After a year attending classes at the Montreal circus school, Corinne was doing wheelies on a unicycle and holding handstands.
    • Punk-rock magician Dylan Studebaker, an irreverent, rebellious version of the familiar tuxedoed illusionist, describes guys in underwear perched on eight-foot unicycles and throwing bags of flour at each other.
    • The couch was held up by cast bronze human figures riding unicycles.
    • The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
    • For example, unicycles and automobiles are vehicles with one and four wheels each, respectively.
    • In both there is a father who disappears, a mother who would rather be elsewhere, a manipulative clergyman, a wisecracking love interest, a fatal unicycle or bicycle accident, a budding artist, and a flight to the city.
    • Iroka mentally froze as she subconsciously wheeled herself out on the highwire on the unicycle and watched several circus personnel take the net away from the bottom.
    • I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with film writers of all stripes turning into circus clowns, traipsing around on unicycles and throwing buckets of confetti that the audience thought were full of water.
    • His act is juggling chainsaws while pedalling a unicycle.
    • Or perhaps unicycles are just not very good prototypes.
    • Sadly I wasn't able to get a shot of the three guys, who looked like they were on the way to see their parole officer, pushing unicycles across the main bridge.
    • We spent all our money on props - cannons, Velcro spacesuits, robots, unicycles, you name it.
    • It has been observed that a proportion of the enemy soldiers on realizing that they are under attack by soldiers on unicycles will cease their combat activities and stare in disbelief; they are then highly susceptible to return fire.
    • Acrobatics has maintained its status as a spectacular bodily art; complex gymnastic feats are now often performed with apparatus such as balls, unicycles, trampolines, tightropes, and trapezes.
    • It's not a regular unicycle - it has the wheel of a mountain bike.
    • Tina was weeping so hard that her mascara was running, leaving tire marks down her cheeks, as if she had been run over by a pair of small unicycles.

Derivatives

  • unicyclist

  • noun
    • Good unicyclists, on the other hand, often have short sticks because they are fast and they prefer to ride quickly to wherever the ball is.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This inclusive, holistic event welcomes diverse pedal-pushing practitioners such as uninhibited unicyclists, temperate tandem riders, and tawdry tricyclists who wish to share the open-road experience with like-minded folks.
      • The earliest mention of the sport he has been able to uncover dates back to 1925, when a silent German movie called ‘Variete’ shows ‘a short scene with two unicyclists performing on a stage.’
      • And the live entertainment is moribund - topping the bill is Pop Circus (three shows daily), where acrobats and unicyclists do their stuff to a lip-synched soundtrack from Abba and Grease.
      • The reporter had been ‘on the road’ for a dozen years, filing stories on ‘those gentler subjects’ (rural eccentrics, unicyclists, small-town sages, long-time friends, a high-school team with a record number of consecutive losses).
 
 

Definition of unicycle in US English:

unicycle

nounˈjunəˌsaɪk(ə)lˈyo͞onəˌsīk(ə)l
  • A cycle with a single wheel, typically used by acrobats.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For example, unicycles and automobiles are vehicles with one and four wheels each, respectively.
    • He's right, but he failed to mention everything else: dancing, bands, a spelling bee, zombies, unicycles - a full-out carnival!
    • Sadly I wasn't able to get a shot of the three guys, who looked like they were on the way to see their parole officer, pushing unicycles across the main bridge.
    • I suppose there is nothing inherently wrong with film writers of all stripes turning into circus clowns, traipsing around on unicycles and throwing buckets of confetti that the audience thought were full of water.
    • Iroka mentally froze as she subconsciously wheeled herself out on the highwire on the unicycle and watched several circus personnel take the net away from the bottom.
    • Or perhaps unicycles are just not very good prototypes.
    • It has been observed that a proportion of the enemy soldiers on realizing that they are under attack by soldiers on unicycles will cease their combat activities and stare in disbelief; they are then highly susceptible to return fire.
    • I think the people I know who ride unicycles already have quite enough mental capabilities, thank you.
    • It's not a regular unicycle - it has the wheel of a mountain bike.
    • Acrobatics has maintained its status as a spectacular bodily art; complex gymnastic feats are now often performed with apparatus such as balls, unicycles, trampolines, tightropes, and trapezes.
    • After a year attending classes at the Montreal circus school, Corinne was doing wheelies on a unicycle and holding handstands.
    • There were dykes on bikes, on unicycles, and in wheelchairs; most of them were on foot, though.
    • In both there is a father who disappears, a mother who would rather be elsewhere, a manipulative clergyman, a wisecracking love interest, a fatal unicycle or bicycle accident, a budding artist, and a flight to the city.
    • His act is juggling chainsaws while pedalling a unicycle.
    • Punk-rock magician Dylan Studebaker, an irreverent, rebellious version of the familiar tuxedoed illusionist, describes guys in underwear perched on eight-foot unicycles and throwing bags of flour at each other.
    • Tina was weeping so hard that her mascara was running, leaving tire marks down her cheeks, as if she had been run over by a pair of small unicycles.
    • Finding a stick isn't a problem, since players don't play using one of those tall unicycles you may have seen in a circus.
    • The couch was held up by cast bronze human figures riding unicycles.
    • We spent all our money on props - cannons, Velcro spacesuits, robots, unicycles, you name it.
    • The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
 
 
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