velocipede

Example Sentences

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He sped around town on an early bicycle called a velocipede.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Bike-adjacent inventions that roll atop train tracks have been known by many different names — handcar, draisine, kalamazoo and velocipede are just a few — since they first cropped up around the 1860s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

And between two wooden luggage carts from the late 1800s sits a railway velocipede, a three-wheeled handcar that was operated by pedals.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2020

Courtesy of the enormous front wheel, it was a racing machine - twice as fast as a velocipede.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2019

She almost added, “Especially for ponies,” but she was not sure whether her exhortations to Rainbow while riding the velocipede had been overheard by Simon, so she omitted that detail for now.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood