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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Comedian John Bishop has cancelled upcoming events after breaking his ankle while riding a motorbike with astronaut Tim Peake.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bishop said: "I went out for a motorbike ride with Tim Peake, who's a brilliant lad and a great cyclist. I learnt a lesson today. Astronauts are better motorcyclists than comedians."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
With a large online following, he has watched the rise of electric motorbike content on social media first-hand.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
China's motorbike sales fell 3.4 percent in 2025, and slid again this year as consumers increasingly favour cars or less regulated electric bikes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn sped off on their baby-blue motorbike.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
The popularity of electric motorbikes has been fuelled in part by social media.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
This is where police and organisers use motorbikes and cars to ensure the road is clear at certain junctions and temporarily enforce a closure in theory until all competitors have passed through.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Many migrants were free to try their luck, jumping on trucks, buses and motorbikes to reach Ceuta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
‘Wreuurrrrr,’ I went, like the Earl’s Court motorbikes.
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 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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