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[bahy-si-kuhl, -sik-uhl, -sahy-kuhl]

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noun

a vehicle with two wheels in tandem, usually propelled by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a chain, and having handlebars for steering and a saddlelike seat.

verb (used without object)

to ride a bicycle.

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verb (used with object)

to ship or transport directly by bicycle or other means.

Origin:
1865–70; < French; see bi-¹, cycle

Related forms

bi·cy·clist, bi·cy·cler, noun

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IN winter, many people prefer a stationary cycle to an outdoors bicycle.

Briggs was part of a bicycle patrol, and he was reportedly a cherished local figure.

Mexico's mail system may have serious flaws, but the mere use of the bicycle is not one of them.

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IN winter, many people prefer a stationary cycle to an outdoors bicycle.

Briggs was part of a bicycle patrol, and he was reportedly a cherished local figure.

Mexico's mail system may have serious flaws, but the mere use of the bicycle is not one of them.

Here's one way to outdo the all-American cross-country road trip: travel by bicycle.

For a city to improve bicycle safety, the prescription actually is to put even more riders on the streets.

One gallery suggests guests arrive at the opening on their bicycle of choice.

Invest in a good bicycle and use it as much as possible.

The bicycle part is pretty standard, if outlandishly styled.

After a summer of their dreams, bicycle store owners are facing a grim reality this winter.

Hope a bike-literate foramite can help me with a bicycle rack issue.

Moreover, making an electric bicycle uses far less energy than making an electric car.

The bicycle is the primary form of mechanized transportation in many parts of the world.

Nothing beats the humble bicycle in energy efficiency.

We were herded into an abandoned bicycle factory, and attached was a time bomb.

The perfect bicycle wheel needs to accomplish three things.

Someone once asked him what pleasure he received from riding his bicycle for such long periods of time.

They cannot ride the subway to work, or haul their hogs by bicycle.

The only way to travel greener might be to bicycle or walk-but the trip is long enough as it is.

Or, if you'd prefer, you can rent a bicycle or even a motor scooter.

Yes, this is another concept bicycle project, but this time there's a difference.

The other has the house key and office keys, and bicycle lock key.

The bicycle example you gave is totally inappropriate for this discussion.

The only was to get there was to walk or ride one's bicycle.

The problem is compounded for those who don heels, braving a bicycle route fashionably rather than comfortably.

Rishel became the first racer to cross the flats-on a bicycle.

The states aren't the only place where bicycle hacks are big.

Despite being an almost perfect design already, the reworkings of the humble bicycle seem almost endless.

So, you've decided to jump on the fixed gear bicycle trend.

Shimano thinks that an electric bike has to be a bicycle.

Traveling with a bicycle is always a scary proposition.

Apparently, this child was content with a bicycle wheel for a toy.

But you can also reduce the chamber pressure with a bicycle pump if you modify it appropriately.

Unfortunately, wrapping up a bicycle trip is often the only predictably joyless.

In subsequent months she and her trusty bicycle often carried so many bags of.

It also makes it easy to shoot with one hand while hanging on to your bicycle or camel with the other.

The mill drives a compressor and the process is comparable with the heating up of a pump for a bicycle tyre.

Maybe there would be bicycle trails and ethnic restaurants.

Buying an ox or a bicycle can change part of the world.

The woman who repairs her bicycle turns out to have been a midwife.

At first rubber was needed for bicycle tires and seals for engines and then for automobiles.

Actually, the fastest mode of transportation within the city is the bicycle.

When the price of petrol soared this year, he grafted a chainsaw engine onto a bicycle to make a moped.

When traveling on bicycle you are much more exposed to the elements than when traveling in a car or bus.

American parents are afraid of letting their kids play in the yard, bicycle to school, hike in the woods.

The number of people getting around by bicycle is growing steadily.

Small clean burning biodiesel bicycle engine running propane.

It is easy to forge your own way through this park, by car or bicycle.

The hybrid driver is far better than a bicycle rider.

It's even worse when you're on a bicycle because you'll never see green until a car rolls up and trips.

Wash your bicycle or your family's car with a bucket and sponge rather than using a hose for the entire operation.

Kamkwamba borrowed textbooks from a local library and constructed windmills using old tractor and bicycle parts.

As an aficionado of both camera bags and bicycle bags, imagine.

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World English Dictionary

bicycle (ˈbaɪsɪk^əl)

—n
1.	cycle, Often shortened to: bike a vehicle with a tubular metal frame mounted on two spoked wheels, one behind the other. The rider sits on a saddle, propels the vehicle by means of pedals that drive the rear wheel through a chain, and steers with handlebars on the front wheel

—vb
2.	(intr) to ride a bicycle; cycle

[C19: from bi-¹ + Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos wheel]

'bicyclist

—n

'bicycler

—n

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Word Origin & History

bicycle

1868, coined from bi- "two" + Gk. kyklos "circle, wheel" (see cycle), on the pattern of tricycle; both the word and the vehicle superseding earlier velocipede. Probably not from French, though often said to be. The

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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.

"That ne plus ultra of snobbishness -- bicyclism." [1876]

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