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bicycle

[bahy-si-kuhl, -sik-uhl, -sahy-kuhl] / ˈbaɪ sɪ kəl, -ˌsɪk əl, -ˌsaɪ kəl /
NOUN
pedal-driven recreational vehicle
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All that is left now is his motorbike, one red bicycle and an assortment of tools.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Mangione fled uptown on an electric bicycle, then jumped into a cab that took him to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

For Jerry Young, 53, who was sitting near the lake with his bicycle recently, the water itself gives him pause.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Raleigh was founded in Nottingham in 1887 and at one stage was the biggest bicycle maker in the world, employing about 8,000 people at its peak.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

It was only when he pushed the note into my palm as he handed the bicycle to me that I realized this wasn’t a gift from him at all.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

But during the decades of its existence, it touched the lives of countless people, both those who worked there and those who enjoyed its bicycles.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The six-month pilot started in July and uses the same batteries as many electric bicycles.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

In 1972, ordinary Californians circulated petitions, knocked on doors, and rode bicycles down the coast, rallying support for Proposition 20, which aimed to regulate coastal development.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Start-up Wunderfix meanwhile offers repair services linking retailers, customers and shops via an application that allows cyclists to diagnose and, where possible, repair their bicycles themselves.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

Unlike the steady stream of the highway, here rickshaws, motorcycles, trucks, and cars shared the narrow roads alongside bicycles and throngs of people.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

We have seen many candidates in the 32 states we’ve bicycled through in the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Over the years, she had painted murals in Ghana, worked as a cook and amateur D.J. in Antarctica, and bicycled from Southern California to Maine.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2024

When friends clacked at keyboards, examined patients, or taught middle schoolers math, I bicycled Arthur's froggy legs because humans aren't born knowing how to pass gas.

From Salon Nov. 27, 2022

Then he whirled around, twirled his body and bicycled it right-footed.

From Washington Post Nov. 24, 2022

Papa occasionally used some money to buy more rice and once even surprised them by giving Mama money to buy one-day-old fish when the fish seller bicycled down the street ringing his bell.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Post retirement, I have returned to avid road bicycling and those years pedaling a heavy steel single-speed bike with 20 pounds of papers in all kinds of weather has really paid off.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

Well, bicycling is one of the most tangible ways of explaining democracy.

From Salon Apr. 18, 2024

We see Hirayama after his shift too: bicycling at twilight, scrubbing down at a bathhouse, grabbing dinner at a favorite spot, then reading before bed.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 8, 2024

Examples of light physical activity are long walks, house chores, slow dancing, slow swimming, and slow bicycling.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2023

She had been bicycling through the air, ice cream in her hand and a book floating in front of her face.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi




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