motorbike
Americannoun
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motorbikes
plural
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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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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
An adventurer who lost a leg in a motorbike crash has warned people not to send money in response to social media messages from someone pretending to be him.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Ukrainian officials recently posted a video, which they said showed residents trying to leave the city by motorbike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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
In the end we didn’t go, and that summer Ben lost control of his motorbike on the A10, and he and I never got to go sailing.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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
Police officers followed and cornered the horse on motorbikes, before it was wrangled by a lasso-carrying cowboy.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
As a teenager, he sold motorbikes on eBay and later worked for the company, according to a profile on the website of Sequoia Capital, one of Hugging Face’s investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
So I said, “Their motorbikes are pretty classic as well.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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