bike

[bahyk]

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noun

Informal.

a bicycle.
a motorbike.
a motorcycle.

Harness Racing. a sulky with tires like those of a bicycle.

verb (used without object), biked, bik·ing.

to ride a bike: I bike to work.

RELATED WORDS

pedal, cycle

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Idioms

get off one's bike, Australian Informal. to lose control of oneself or become angry.

Origin of bike

1880–85, Americanism; alteration of bicycle

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Examples from the Web for biking

Here is where the biking becomes the most beautiful — and increasingly challenging.
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He says biking long distances is “like coming to peace in your mind and your body.”
Biking With the Bard|Kara Cutruzzula|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Biking and marathoning on park trails are to predators the equivalent of running.
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Races, including running (road and off-road), biking, swimming, and a combination of all three, are a great way to get moving.
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A viewer can almost feel the thrill of biking on a glorious day become supercharged with the rush of riding in numbers.
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July, 1911, was a hot month and a dusty, and we were biking fifty miles the day.
Shandygaff|Christopher Morley
It's the ring of Saturn, and, as the saying goes, for biking Saturn is quite the cheese.
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Give me your biking cap, unless you want to use it in the play.
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As a matter of fact, the thought that you would come to the rescue never occurred to me till I was biking back from town.
The Hill|Horace Annesley Vachell
There was a bright color on her face, but then she had been "biking," and it was warm.
Friendship and Folly|Maria Louise Pool

British Dictionary definitions for biking

bike

noun, verb

informal short for bicycle, motorcycle

on your bike British slang away you go

get off one's bike Australian and NZ slang to lose one's self-control

noun

slang a promiscuous womanthe town bike

bike

byke

Scot

noun

a wasps' or bees' nest

verb (intr)

to swarm

Word Origin for bike

C14: of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for biking

bike

1882, American English, shortened and altered form of bicycle.

bike

noun

verb (used without object), biked, bik·ing.

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