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motorbike

[moh-ter-bahyk] / ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪk /
NOUN
motor scooter
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"I worried if my motorbike would be able to wade through floodwater this much."

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Eventually, his friend Reggie Manuel persuaded him to attend, even giving him a lift on his rickety old motorbike.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In Nairobi and other major towns, migrants from the region can be found working in barber shops and salons, construction, operating motorbike taxis and street vending, as well as selling clothes, food and household goods.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Long queues of people could be seen evacuating towns on foot, by motorbike and car, some piled into the back of pickup trucks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

In the end we didn’t go, and that summer Ben lost control of his motorbike on the A10, and he and I never got to go sailing.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Homemaker and mother Mutia Mulansari, 30, said she had heard people say the women were "just riding motorbikes back and forth, back and forth... we’re just playing around".

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

As a teenager, he sold motorbikes on eBay and later worked for the company, according to a profile on the website of Sequoia Capital, one of Hugging Face’s investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

One of the most densely populated cities on the planet, the capital teems with a relentless tide of scooters and motorbikes in its narrow streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Illegal use of electric motorbikes is not a problem confined to one town.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

I try to think past the babies and the motorbikes and the popcorn and the short pants.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

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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