as in bikes
a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars
the range of the boy's explorations vastly expanded when he acquired his first bicycle
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Recent Examples of bicycles
There’ll be music, food and other vehicles besides cars like vintage tractors, motorcycles, bicycles and fire trucks.
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
More people bake bread, repair bicycles, or keep chickens.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Guests can borrow hotel bicycles, while event planners can book through the hotel’s CONNECT sustainable meetings program, which offers lower-impact setups.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
In addition, Bersinger mentions seeing children riding their bicycles on the street.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Scattered about are baseball bats, book bags, bicycles.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Today's bicycles all have indexed shifting, in which the levers and derailleurs snap precisely from one gear to the next.
—New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
Try bicycles for more exercise disguised as fun, then saunter over to Spa La Quinta’s 23,000 square feet of bliss.
—Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Try a private family tour from Bike About Tours, which will outfit the whole clan with bicycles (including, if necessary, kiddie seats or tandem attachments) and team you with an English-speaking guide who has years of experience cycling around Paris with their own families.
—Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
More people bake bread, repair bicycles, or keep chickens.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Guests can borrow hotel bicycles, while event planners can book through the hotel’s CONNECT sustainable meetings program, which offers lower-impact setups.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
In addition, Bersinger mentions seeing children riding their bicycles on the street.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Scattered about are baseball bats, book bags, bicycles.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Today's bicycles all have indexed shifting, in which the levers and derailleurs snap precisely from one gear to the next.
—New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
Try bicycles for more exercise disguised as fun, then saunter over to Spa La Quinta’s 23,000 square feet of bliss.
—Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Try a private family tour from Bike About Tours, which will outfit the whole clan with bicycles (including, if necessary, kiddie seats or tandem attachments) and team you with an English-speaking guide who has years of experience cycling around Paris with their own families.
—Elissa Garay, AFAR Media, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bicycles
bikes
Noun
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Soichiro Honda founded his namesake company in 1946 to build motor bikes.—
Sam Abuelsamid,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Particularly when those bikes are old time-capsule classics that are valuable to collectors.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Bicycles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bicycles. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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