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motorbike

[moh-ter-bahyk] / ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪk /
NOUN
motor scooter
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With a large online following, he has watched the rise of electric motorbike content on social media first-hand.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

All that is left now is his motorbike, one red bicycle and an assortment of tools.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

For centuries, tattoos were firmly linked to criminal gangs and sailors and, more recently, counter-cultural movements such as punk and motorbike clubs.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

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

Not ever, unless perhaps I’d decided to buy a motorbike in Stockport—perhaps Maddie might have served me.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Riders on powerful electric motorbikes are intimidating pedestrians, damaging property and putting people at risk by riding dangerously through towns and villages, communities have warned.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

This is where police and organisers use motorbikes and cars to ensure the road is clear at certain junctions and temporarily enforce a closure in theory until all competitors have passed through.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Many migrants were free to try their luck, jumping on trucks, buses and motorbikes to reach Ceuta.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

The group were were being punished for "mismanaging" the battery exchanges for Spiro motorbikes, which they denied.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

So I said, “Their motorbikes are pretty classic as well.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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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