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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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"I just lived my life in it, and I went on my bicycle and shopping and what not. And people really liked it," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Recreational travel is mostly on the tandem bicycle; campgrounds on our routes are low-cost, and the riding is next to free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In one image, Ali rides in a bicycle carriage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Gardening, riding a stationary bicycle, and enjoying other favorite activities all involve far less pain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

‘We were looking for the bicycle key and this fell out,’ Will said quickly.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Perhaps the most famous case is the designer Pierre Cardin, who slapped his name on everything from cigarettes to bicycles with disastrous results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

There are hundreds of specialised manufacturing towns in China, producing items ranging from bicycles to socks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

A Class 2 e-bike can also be ridden by all ages, but those bicycles also include a throttle along pedal assist, and max out at a speed of 20 mph.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

In July, NPR reported that the department had taken down important safety data about crashes involving cars and bicycles and pedestrians, which are used by city planners to figure out where to focus road improvements.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

The two boys had seemed carefree, calling to each other, racing their bicycles along the path.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

During World War II, as a girl, she had bicycled across Amsterdam, delivering coded messages for her sister, a nurse in the resistance.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023

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

“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Harstine, 70, a semiretired orchard packer, said he has noticed Hispanic men bicycling through the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

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

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2024

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

When we first see the bald, black-T-shirted Kiefer, it’s in his latest cavernous workspace outside of Paris, bicycling and whistling among paintings of spectacular scale and heaviness, like a strange little town’s most dedicated citizen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 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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