bicycle race
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of bicycle race
First recorded in 1865–70
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Roles were reversed in June, when Schulke arrived in Oceanside for his bicycle race across America with his own support team of eight friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Tour de France organisers said they were ready to adapt to any situation when the bicycle race enters the country on Monday after starting in the Spanish city of Bilbao.
From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2023
The other day in the Giro d’Italia—the most prestigious bicycle race on the planet, after the Tour de France—the Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin encountered a crisis that unsettled the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2017
The men said they were mapping out a bicycle race.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2016
In between the crowing contest, the backwards bicycle race, and all that, you’d see folks gathered together, talking and laughing.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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