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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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Oxnard Fixie Crew, the youth-focused fixed-gear bicycle club that Valdez started in 2019, is still active.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

"We're still growing slowly. It's almost like saying we're winning a slow bicycle race here because other people are going backwards a bit more rapidly than we are."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Hugo helped me learn how to ride the bicycle.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

"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

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 were no other cars there, no bicycles locked to the fence, and no swimming pool—not even a trace of a pool.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

Mamdani and Brad Lander appeared together on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and bicycled to joint events in all corners of the city.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

In 1970, he bicycled 3,300 miles from Los Angeles to New York to promote fitness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

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

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

I saw a 2013 documentary about CERN, which features a shot of an engineer bicycling through the LHC tunnel during a collider shutdown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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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