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motorbike

[moh-ter-bahyk] / ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪk /
NOUN
motor scooter
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In Chongqing, more than 50 manufacturers and hundreds of component suppliers are able to leverage the booming industry of China's "motorbike capital".

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

No arrests have so far been made and the two people on the motorbike fled the scene.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The Oscar winning musician died in a single vehicle motorbike crash last week.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

"There is a local saying that if you put a camera at an intersection in Chongqing, every 30 seconds you'll see a motorcycle pass by," said Zhang Yuanming, a 29-year-old motorbike enthusiast and instructor.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

“She calls gasoline petrol. A motorcycle is a motorbike and a truck, a lorry.”

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

Mandao has been "in survival mode for several months," she said, with cascading power cuts braking home deliveries by disrupting mobile phone signals and leaving delivery drivers without power for their electric motorbikes.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

Living up to its namesake, fast cars, helicopters and motorbikes also grace the game's brightly coloured cover, created in the series' signature pop-art style.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

Some young men rode in on their motorbikes and cars they tricked out themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

The company's first line of 100 motorbikes sold out.

From BBC Jun. 11, 2026

‘Wreuurrrrr,’ I went, like the Earl’s Court motorbikes.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Just over one kilometre from the finish line on stage 12, the Briton was forced to run without a bicycle following a crash with a motorbiked on Mont Ventoux.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Really anxious to see him, I motorbiked down to their house.

From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy

Teams of sellers hawk their filming services to passersby, many of whom have been drawn to the city and its cyberpunk image by motorbiking videos on social media shot against the neon-lit nightscape.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Mr and Mrs Foreman, both 52 from East Sussex, were motorbiking from Spain to Australia when they crossed into Iran on 31 December.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2025

These visceral moments evoke the sense of empowerment motorbiking creates for otherwise underprivileged — young, primarily Black and brown — people.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2023

He loves it, for the motorbiking and because “all the schools are like Grease”.

From The Guardian Jan. 14, 2017

"You know anything about motorbiking across Bhutan?" a snaggle-toothed hippie asked me as he let me into a Californian hot-springs compound at 1 a.m. on a recent night.

From Time Magazine Archive




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