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noun (1)

ˈbīk How to pronounce bike (audio)
Definition of bikenext
as in bicycle
a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars likes to ride her mountain bike on weekends

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noun (2)

chiefly Scottish
as in crowd
a great number of persons or creatures massed together the boisterous bike that annually descends upon Edinburgh for the Fringe

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Recent Examples of bike
Noun
Police have issued seven citations and impounded two e-bikes/e-motorcycles. — Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026 Construction will occur mostly in Grand Prairie and will add a 12-foot wide hike and bike trail, a pedestrian bridge, storm improvements, driveway replacements and striping along the street. — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Aug. 2026 People who ride bikes are a small but very vocal minority who seem to have city government wrapped around their fingers. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026 Since 2011, Project Hero Wounded Veterans has hosted an annual noncompetitive therapy bike ride to benefit Healing Heroes, a project focused on developing resources that help heal PTSD for combat veterans, service members and first responders. — Hannah Brueske, Twin Cities, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bike
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bike
  1. bicycle
  2. crowd
  3. throng
  4. swarm
  5. flock
  6. horde
  7. army
  8. multitude
Noun
  • The image showed a younger Bloom wearing a back brace while riding a bicycle.
    — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Those include the installation of vehicle and pedestrian gates at three existing crossings, and the construction of two pedestrian and bicycle at-grade crossings, and an undercrossing for pedestrians and bicycle riders.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of bicycle
Noun
  • The team is playing to a smaller crowd and its matches are being streamed, not broadcast.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Forecasting tournaments and election markets have beaten their baselines, but no study has shown a crowd signal can be traded profitably at scale.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of crowd
Noun
  • The defendant and his legal team declined to speak with a throng of reporters outside the courthouse.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Right in the middle of cheering, reveling masses was MARTA — a connective system of veins that efficiently moved the happy throngs.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of throng
Noun
  • Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of collisions would happen every year, each unleashing its own swarm of hazardous, high-speed orbital shrapnel.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of swarm
Noun
  • So, what did Wild Florida look like before flocks of people made this place home base?
    — Candace Barone, Florida Times-Union, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Like swallows returning home, more than 100,000 Penn State faithful flock to the fields surrounding Beaver Stadium six times a fall.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of flock
Noun
  • Since it was designated the first national recreation area in 1964, hordes of visitors have cut Lake Mead’s glassy surface with jet skis and boats, carelessly dropping belongings that may now wash up on shore.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Stop moving and a horde of desperate, violent strangers sprint from the woods to try to steal their car.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of horde
Noun
  • Wars cannot be fought on ideology alone – a truism that perhaps led to the firebrand former defense minister’s departure, after months of clashes and refusing to deal with the army top brass, as Zelensky describes it.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • And because intelligence exists in isolated fragments across different systems, companies end up deploying armies of employees whose primary, manual job is just interpretation.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of army
Noun
  • Rendered in Hadid’s signature, curvilinear style, the plaza contains a museum and a multitude of exhibition spaces as well as a design center; these internal zones are linked through a series of interior and underground pathways.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Not only is this replacement for the rather ramshackle Manor Ground and its multitude of different stands totally devoid of character and located on an anonymous retail park, miles from the city centre.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of multitude

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