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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For centuries, tattoos were firmly linked to criminal gangs and sailors and, more recently, counter-cultural movements such as punk and motorbike clubs.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
In Chongqing, more than 50 manufacturers and hundreds of component suppliers are able to leverage the booming industry of China's "motorbike capital".
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
"There is a local saying that if you put a camera at an intersection in Chongqing, every 30 seconds you'll see a motorcycle pass by," said Zhang Yuanming, a 29-year-old motorbike enthusiast and instructor.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
It blows my hair back, like I'm riding a motorbike at speed.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
They’re standing in front of a motorbike, smiling.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Ambulances were unable to get into the town, and our driver Leo saw injured people being driven away on the back of motorbikes because traffic was so heavy, particularly around a collapsed bridge nearby.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Living up to its namesake, fast cars, helicopters and motorbikes also grace the game's brightly coloured cover, created in the series' signature pop-art style.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Some young men rode in on their motorbikes and cars they tricked out themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
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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