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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.

One who rides a bicycle.

A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear (driving) wheel by a multiplying gear.

Relating to bicycles.

The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.

The art of riding a bicycle.

A bicycler.

s pivoted to the ends of the blocks, used with sprocket wheels to transmit power, as in a bicycle.

A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

A bicycle or tricycle, or other light velocipede. Calippic cycle, a period of 76 years, or four Metonic cycles; -- so called from Calippus, who proposed it as an improvement on the Metonic cycle. -- Cycle of eclipses, a priod of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; -- called Saros by the Chalde…

The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.

A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.

A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]

echanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. Dryden. Southey. Thackeray.

A bicycle having a motor attached so as to be self-propelled. In Great Britain the term motor cycle is treated by statute (3 Ed VII. c. 36) as limited to motor cars (self-propelled vehicles) designed to travel on not more than three wheels, and weighing unladen (that is, without water, fuel, or accumulators necessary f…

teel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

e dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. Milton.

A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.

er's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.