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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
All of these vehicles — minus the e-bike — were on display at the forum held at the Tahoe Blue Event Center in Stateline, Nevada. — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 21 Aug. 2026 In video footage featured in the Netflix series, Harry and Eugenie rode bikes together beneath a canopy of palm trees, while another sweet moment shows Eugenie splashing in the ocean with Prince Archie. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 Miami is expected to be missing center back Micael (ankle), who was on a stationary bike Friday morning, and Mateo Silvetti (shoulder), who was not at practice. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026 Wendy Altschuler Our final outdoor activity before watching the sunset on the beach for our concluding night, was to grab a pair of pedal assist bikes from Pine Nut EBike Rentals, which operates directly from Margaritaville Resort Lake Tahoe. — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 21 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
  • Milwaukee Police District 3, the department’s Major Events Response Team, mounted and bicycle patrols and drones were also used during the fair.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Set against the backdrop of Indiana University in the early ’80s and inspired by the iconic Little 500 bicycle race, Little Five follows four unlikely young women who come together to chase one impossible dream.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 19 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
  • Why then, are throngs of armchair analysts online pointing fingers at her ex-husband, Patrick, blaming him for the deaths?
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The new 47-key Orient Express Venezia is an experience, housed within Palazzo Donà Giovannelli in the oldest and northernmost Cannaregio district, drawing high-end travelers away from the throngs.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 20 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
  • Due to a shoddy defense, Washington is already down double figures in a multitude of contests.
    — Brad Evans, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • On Thursday during the earnings call, analysts wanted more details on how exactly the company, which holds a multitude of fragrance licenses including Hugo Boss, Burberry, Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein, plans to achieve that goal.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of multitude

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