bicycling

as indrive

Synonyms for bicycling

verb moving, controlling a vehicle

Antonyms for bicycling

Word Origin & History

1868, coined from bi- "two" + Greek kyklos "circle, wheel" (see cycle (n.)), on the pattern of tricycle; both the word and the vehicle superseding earlier velocipede. The English word probably is not from French, though often said to be (many French sources say the French word is from English). The assumption apparently is because Pierre Lallement, employee of a French carriage works, improved Macmillan's 1839 pedal velocipede in 1865 and took the invention to America. See also pennyfarthing. As a verb, from 1869.

Example Sentences for bicycling

Mr. Beebe was bicycling over this Monday afternoon with a piece of gossip.

I have alluded to the variety and alteration of pace which we can, and should, get while bicycling.

Or is it with bicycling as with all other things: does Life at no point realise the Poster?

How nice it was there, bicycling on the sand in one's bathing dress!

So love was an exercise like tennis, or bicycling, or riding!

And, when Bob went off bicycling, Gilio even accompanied the ladies to the town.

It was most unfortunate that she should have had on her bicycling dress.

John and he had often talked of a bicycling tour in Normandy.

If he had lived in the days of bicycling, he might have found the key to his difficulty.

We watched him go off bicycling alone in the red autumn afternoons.