motorbike
Americannoun
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a small, lightweight motorcycle.
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a bicycle that is propelled by an attached motor.
verb (used without object)
noun
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Origin of motorbike
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Another rides off with two large fish strung over his motorbike.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
As Mazaar and his group of 11 motorbike riders leave the Mastung district in Balochistan to head towards his home, they're hit by a heat storm - a prolonged heatwave that includes dust storms.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Two-wheelers reign supreme across Vietnam, where public transport is limited and many cannot afford cars, making it the world's fourth-largest motorbike market.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
She told police that two men on a motorbike rode up to her near her upmarket gym in Chelsea.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
With an unmistakable bellowing roar, dragon fire burst from the exhaust, white-hot and blue, and the motorbike shot forward like a bullet with a sound of wrenching metal.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Ecuador - beaten 2-0 by Mexico in the World Cup last 32 - lodged a noise complaint with Fifa after fans with loudspeakers, motorbikes and horns disrupted their sleep last week.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
The market for electric motorbikes has boomed in east Africa, with a further boost from the war in the Middle East this year pushing up fuel prices.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Some young men rode in on their motorbikes and cars they tricked out themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Liliana’s 15-year-old daughter, Nicole, specializes in the Globe of Death, where she gets in the locked cage with her cousin Judith, also 15; together they maneuver the motorbikes around the globe at opposing-intersecting paths.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
‘The creme de la creme of motorbikes, the one and only, the I ran. Then an announcement came over the loud speaker. ‘Come to the take-off ramp in Hall Two for the freestyle jumper display.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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 Galsworthy, John
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
A more progressive era dawned with the arrival last year of Françoise Lehmann, Lancôme’s 55-year-old motorbiking general manager.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2018
He loves it, for the motorbiking and because “all the schools are like Grease”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017
There are features on French wines and women, fashions in leather and rough-country motorbiking.
From Time Magazine Archive
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