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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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Using the code-name Corlay, she criss-crossed the region around Le Mans by bicycle, gathering information and passing on messages.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

As a candidate, she criticized Bass for blocking a plan to install new bicycle lanes through Griffith Park, saying the improvements were urgently needed to reduce traffic deaths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Muhannad al-Tamimi, whose house had been occupied by soldiers since the operation began, returned to a trashed apartment with furniture and clothing littering the floors, mattresses overturned and a child's bicycle broken.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

I remember the rosemary, the bicycle ride, the pleasure of discovering another cook’s cupboards.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

When Joe Pellusch, an American soldier stationed in Germany, witnessed the accident and saw Elisabeth crying, he bought her a new bicycle and asked her out.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The footage shown to jurors at Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday also captured passengers barricading themselves inside using bicycles.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Water difficulties are forcing many Cubans to haul the precious resource for long distances, transporting it via wheelbarrows, bicycles, car trunks and even horse-drawn carts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Residents walked and rode bicycles along the boardwalk as dozers and excavators moved along the beach, reinforcing the several-foot-high berms built to protect homes from the ocean waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

But the familiar grids of bicycles and traffic lights haven’t disappeared—at least not yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Outside the window the rain pours down on all the drenched, dark goats and bicycles and children, and I stand here appraising the end of the world.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Oregon lawmakers in 2019 established a unique Tri-Met Crash Advisory Committee at the prodding of Darla Sturdy, whose 16-year-old son was fatally hit in 2003 by a train as he bicycled in suburban Gresham.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Nicole slowly bicycled her legs out in front of her.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Soon, I was bicycling to Harris Teeter for cornbread ingredients, where Harry the Happy Dragon — a coin-operated green kiddie ride — stood sentry outside the entrance.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

While bicycling to work, he saw the growing number of green trash bins popping up on curbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2025

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

We do what we always do when we hang out in her room, bicycling our legs into the drapey fabric and gossiping about boys she has crushes on.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio


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