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motorbike

[moh-ter-bahyk] / ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪk /
NOUN
motor scooter
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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

He traded his motorbike for a Terminator figure nearly 10 years ago and said his larger collectables were now increasing in value.

From BBC Aug. 12, 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

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

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

TaShon’s dad is sitting on a sad-looking motorbike, and he’s yelling at TaShon to get on.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 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

We roared back down the mountainside on motorbikes, and a bus eventually rolled up, crowded with dozens of people.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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

A more progressive era dawned with the arrival last year of Françoise Lehmann, Lancôme’s 55-year-old motorbiking general manager.

From New York Times May 10, 2018

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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