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noun (1)

ˈbīk

Definition of bike

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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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

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Videos of him jumping an R6 supersport bike damn near ten feet in the air. — Loz Blain september 24, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026 The Orange County School Board unanimously voted in July to ban most students from riding e-bikes and e-scooters to campus when the school year started last month. — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026 The delineators between the bike lane and sidewalk will help keep cyclists and pedestrians separated. — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Refinished hardwood floors complete this home, which is located in a building with a package room, fitness center and bike room. — Kim Quillen, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bike

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Noun

Active travelers will appreciate the gear shed, stocked with bicycles, helmets, backpacks, hiking sticks, binoculars, guitars, cameras, hoverboards, and basketballs.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
The man then appears to stab and slash the tires of a bicycle in front of the building before storming off, the video shows.

— Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of bicycle

Noun

Faraway Sag Harbor began welcoming guests in June 2026, just in time for peak Hamptons crowds.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
This can aid, of course, in forecasting crowds and park staffing, but is also intended to limit days in which the park can feel overcrowded.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of crowd

Noun

With her high heels, bright smile, and entourage of millennial assistants and executives, Terekh stands out in her factory, where throngs of middle-aged men lug drone parts, wield power tools and chain-smoke cigarettes.

— Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
Over the past few days, the people at the front of the lines have gradually moved closer and closer to the courtroom, to the point where the doors can barely open without bumping into a throng of people.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of throng

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The allied soldiers performed well in a scenario that mimicked previous conflicts with limited air threats, but their systems were not designed for the large drone swarms of modern combat.

— Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
First, OpenAI revealed that a swarm of its experimental AI models broke out of a testing environment and hacked another AI platform, Hugging Face, without human direction or knowledge.

— Brittany Shammas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of swarm

Noun

Kramer thanked YouTube native Parsons for his film Backroom, which helped energize young audiences, and also noted how the youth demographic flocks to Academy screenings of classic cinema.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
On May 24, 2023, the trio, who belong to a group called Animal Rising, approached Appleton Farm on the Sandringham estate and climbed over a low electric fence to gain access to the flock.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of flock

Noun

But none have had the kind of folksy humor and candor that can draw hordes of investors each year, like those attending Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting.

— Josh Funk, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026
But none have had the kind of folksy humor and candor that can draw hordes of investors each year, like those attending Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of horde

Noun

Jones is, as she’s proven throughout her career, immensely adept at capturing a multitude of personae with quick shifts of posture, timbre, and accent, though in this case, a sameness comes with recounting so much recent political conversation.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Another from a user named EDSHRANCOMPLICIT featured a video of a man demonstrating a multitude of ways to give the camera the middle finger.

— Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2026

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