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motorbike

American  
[moh-ter-bahyk] / ˈmoʊ tərˌbaɪk /

noun

  • motorbikes
    plural
  1. a small, lightweight motorcycle.

  2. a bicycle that is propelled by an attached motor.


verb (used without object)

motorbiked, motorbiking
  1. to go by motorbike; drive or ride a motorbike.

motorbike British  
/ ˈməʊtəˌbaɪk /

noun

  1. a less formal name for motorcycle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of motorbike

First recorded in 1900–05; motor + bike 1


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Nights out have been rare for Mora in recent months after spending a huge chunk of her income to buy black-market medicine for injuries she sustained in a motorbike accident.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

According to court reports in her fraud conviction, she also flew to Cancún, Mexico, where she posted pictures of herself ziplining and riding a quad motorbike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

A man on a motorbike then saw her and drove her to the camp, she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

"I woke up to go to work and the street in front of my house was flooded," said motorbike rider Samruay Nakkamnueng in the Ari neighbourhood.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Several years later the boys would teach me how to ride a motorbike and drive a car, which few women did back then.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Sandra contacted the BBC in response to a report about teenagers boasting on TikTok about stealing motorbikes.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Thousands of people lined highways, toll plazas and city streets waving Venezuelan flags and chanting "Liberty!" as a beaming Machado entered the capital in a convoy of cars and motorbikes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Homemaker and mother Mutia Mulansari, 30, said she had heard people say the women were "just riding motorbikes back and forth, back and forth... we’re just playing around".

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

One of the most densely populated cities on the planet, the capital teems with a relentless tide of scooters and motorbikes in its narrow streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

I guess he could have been from a city and sold motorbikes or something.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Just over one kilometre from the finish line on stage 12, the Briton was forced to run without a bicycle following a crash with a motorbiked on Mont Ventoux.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Really anxious to see him, I motorbiked down to their house.

From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy

Teams of sellers hawk their filming services to passersby, many of whom have been drawn to the city and its cyberpunk image by motorbiking videos on social media shot against the neon-lit nightscape.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Mr and Mrs Foreman, both 52 from East Sussex, were motorbiking from Spain to Australia when they crossed into Iran on 31 December.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2025

These visceral moments evoke the sense of empowerment motorbiking creates for otherwise underprivileged — young, primarily Black and brown — people.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

He loves it, for the motorbiking and because “all the schools are like Grease”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017

"You know anything about motorbiking across Bhutan?" a snaggle-toothed hippie asked me as he let me into a Californian hot-springs compound at 1 a.m. on a recent night.

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