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Bicycle   /bˈaɪsɪkəl/   Listen
Bicycle

noun
1.
A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals.  Synonyms: bike, cycle, wheel.
verb
1.
Ride a bicycle.  Synonyms: bike, cycle, pedal, wheel.



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"Bicycle" Quotes from Famous Books



... bridge-builder, the anti-friction metal to the mechanic for bearings. It was already known how to vulcanize rubber, and how to galvanize iron. The application of machinery in the harvest-field had begun with the embryonic reaper, while both the bicycle and the automobile were heralded in primitive prototypes. The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. The sewing-machine had brought with it, like the ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... days of the Free State, fought natives, and played a big part in the settlement of the country. He has been Governor-General of the Colony, Vice-Governor-General of the Katanga and is now Honorary Vice-Governor. In the primitive period he went about, after the Congo fashion, on a bicycle, in flannel shirt and leggins and he continued this rough-and-ready attire when he became ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson

... my word, you could not find another like him all over Europe! He lectures—can you imagine?—as though he were sucking a sugar-stick—sue, sue, sue;... he is in a nervous funk; he can hardly decipher his own manuscript; his poor little thoughts crawl along like a bishop on a bicycle, and, what's worse, you can never make out what he is trying to say. The deadly dulness is awful, the very flies expire. It can only be compared with the boredom in the assembly-hall at the yearly meeting when the traditional address ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... time the bell rang for afternoon school he had only succeeded in ascertaining the fact that his cousin must be somewhere about, from having seen the name "J. Fenleigh" ticked off on the bedroom list. Holms was full of a project for hiring a bicycle during the summer months, and, what with listening to the unfolding of this plan, and struggling with the work in hand, Valentine soon forgot the ...
— Soldiers of the Queen • Harold Avery

... Delia," said the governess, as Nan was about to go upstairs, "if you have an ax, or something of the sort, I'll try to unbox my bicycle." ...
— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann


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