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bicycle

[bahy-si-kuhl, -sik-uhl, -sahy-kuhl] / ˈbaɪ sɪ kəl, -ˌsɪk əl, -ˌsaɪ kəl /
NOUN
pedal-driven recreational vehicle
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All that is left now is his motorbike, one red bicycle and an assortment of tools.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

My youth was alarmingly idyllic with the hopped fences, bicycle slaloms through traffic and occasional near-misdemeanor mischief.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Raleigh was founded in Nottingham in 1887 and at one stage was the biggest bicycle maker in the world, employing about 8,000 people at its peak.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

A slim man with dark hair pedals slowly by us on a dilapidated bicycle.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

But during the decades of its existence, it touched the lives of countless people, both those who worked there and those who enjoyed its bicycles.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

In 1972, ordinary Californians circulated petitions, knocked on doors, and rode bicycles down the coast, rallying support for Proposition 20, which aimed to regulate coastal development.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

At the stand of Avinox, a manufacturer of motors for electric bicycles, the DNA of parent company and Chinese drone specialist DJI has been transposed to cycling.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

The family has a big goal for the summer: to get the boys riding bicycles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

We all ride our bicycles all the time anyway, just to get around, but it's hardly the weather for a pleasure ride.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

We have seen many candidates in the 32 states we’ve bicycled through in the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

In 1970, he bicycled 3,300 miles from Los Angeles to New York to promote fitness.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2023

During World War II, as a girl, she had bicycled across Amsterdam, delivering coded messages for her sister, a nurse in the resistance.

From Washington Post Jan. 4, 2023

When friends clacked at keyboards, examined patients, or taught middle schoolers math, I bicycled Arthur's froggy legs because humans aren't born knowing how to pass gas.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2022

“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Harstine, 70, a semiretired orchard packer, said he has noticed Hispanic men bicycling through the area.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

While bicycling to work, he saw the growing number of green trash bins popping up on curbs.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2025

Well, bicycling is one of the most tangible ways of explaining democracy.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2024

In countries where safe routes for bicycling are provided, people choose bikes as transportation more frequently as they age.

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2024

“It was fine. I don't know. I don't really like big group outings. I don’t really even like bicycling, but I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that.”

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse




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