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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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Musk is giving you a child’s bicycle from Walmart.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

As food ran low over the summer, she said, he decided to make the journey by bicycle to Radensk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

But an Instagram page dedicated to monitoring inaccurate or misleading race times posted by influencers published a picture which appeared to show Sun on a bicycle between the 35km and and 40km marks.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

"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

With her voice still echoing in my ears, I got on my bicycle and pedaled home.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

"I've brought over the man who repairs bicycles in Wolvercote, people who repair sewing, people who do computers, who sharpen knives."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

When she feels up to it, they go boating or ride bicycles to nearby beaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Founded in the 19th century by Jewish brothers Loeb and Moses Simson in Suhl, Thuringia, it grew into a thriving industrial firm that made firearms but also bicycles and luxury automobiles.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

‘If you want to I can get bicycles and we can go tomorrow. I have a holiday one Sunday a month.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Before his death, Carroll, who had bicycled to the monastery almost every day, represented the sisters to city officials, relaying their concerns about the noise in the park.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 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

It came with Mr. Fleming, the telegraphist, who bicycled over to our house with it in his pouch.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

In 2008, he retired from that firm — now simply called Evercore, Inc. — after he was seriously injured in a bicycling accident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 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

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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