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bicycle

noun
 
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkl/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkl/
(also informal bike)
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  1. a road vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pushing the pedals with your feet自行车；脚踏车
    • He got on his bicycle and rode off.他骑上自行车走了。🔊🔊
    • We went for a bicycle ride on Sunday.我们星期天骑自行车兜风了。🔊🔊
    • She spent the day riding her bicycle around the lake.她整日在湖上骑自行车。
    • a bicycle helmet/wheel自行车头盔/车轮
    Extra Examples
    • Did you come by bicycle?你是骑自行车来的吗？
    • I dismounted and began to push my bicycle up the hill.我下了自行车，开始推着上坡。
    • She came off her bicycle when it skidded on some wet leaves.自行车在湿树叶上打滑，把她摔了下来。
    • She pedalled her bicycle up the track.她骑车上了小路。
    Topics Transport by car or lorrya1, Sports: other sportsa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + bicycle
    • ride
    • get on
    • mount
    • …
    bicycle + noun
    • ride
    • rider
    • chain
    • …
    preposition
    • by bicycle
    • on a/​the bicycle
    phrases
    • lean a bicycle against something
    • prop a bicycle against something
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    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from bi- ‘two’ + Greek kuklos ‘wheel’.

bicycle

verb
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkl/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkl/
 [intransitive] (old-fashioned)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bicycle
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkl/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkl/
he / she / it bicycles
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪklz/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪklz/
past simple bicycled
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkld/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkld/
past participle bicycled
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkld/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪkld/
-ing form bicycling
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪklɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbaɪsɪklɪŋ/
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  1. (+ adv./prep.) to go somewhere on a bicycle骑自行车 compare bike, cycleTopics Sports: other sportsb1
    Word Originmid 19th cent.: from bi- ‘two’ + Greek kuklos ‘wheel’.