push-bikes

variants also push bicycles
plural of push-bike, British
as in bicycles
a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars the vicar riding his sturdy push-bike used to be a common sight around the village

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Noun
  • Police interviewed two children who were riding bicycles behind the house.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Almost all its gasoline is imported, making gas expensive and scarce; in many parts of the countryside, bicycles and horse carts have supplanted cars.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While most 200-horsepower sport bikes top out around 190 mph, Indian’s Challenger is a bagger that can rival them straight down the salt flats.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • From car couriers to bikes to sidewalk robots and now drones, Uber is aiming to build the most flexible delivery network in the world.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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