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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She makes breakfast for her 87-year-old father and then rides her motorbike to her job as a health aide to 22 other elderly people in this poor farming village west of Bangkok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Other protesters posed next to a Cepeda float, while honking horns, roaring motorbike engines and shouts of "resistance!" filled the air.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
With the shelves of state-run shops glaringly empty and public transport drying up, Mipymes and the self-employed now dominate retail food sales and ferry people about -- by taxi, rickshaw and motorbike.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Event organisers said six other spectators and the motorbike racer had now been discharged from hospital.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
She tried to turn her motorbike around, walking it by the handlebars, and ran into someone.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
The group were were being punished for "mismanaging" the battery exchanges for Spiro motorbikes, which they denied.
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
Over time, those markings were replaced with a unique alphanumeric code system, while deliveries came to rely on bicycles, motorbikes and Mumbai's suburban train network.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Instead, assaults often involve two or three soldiers walking across a field or riding motorbikes, sometimes even on horseback or on bicycles.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
I try to think past the babies and the motorbikes and the popcorn and the short pants.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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
"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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