bicycle

Speech parts

1. bicycle - Noun

2. bicycle - Verb

Meaning

A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cycle bike wheel pedal bicycling mountain bike velocipede two-wheeler racing bike landau jeep scrambler wheeling shay chariot
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Antonyms

public transport walking real estate unicycle public transit light rail
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Hypernyms

ride wheeled vehicle

Hyponyms

ordinary tandem mountain bike unicycle off-roader velocipede

Phrases with the word

bicycle messenger a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle just like riding a bicycle like riding a bicycle motor bicycle

Anagrams

bycicle

Examples

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Gloria Steinem

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. Helen Keller

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. Terry Pratchett

Close letter words and terms

bicyclable bicyclam bicyclase bicycle attachment bicycle bridge bicycle carrier