helmet
noun
any of various forms of protective head covering worn by soldiers, firefighters, divers, cyclists, etc.
Example Sentences
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“Gen X: We straight up raised ourselves,” reads the caption on one popular internet meme, a photo of an unhelmeted child on a rickety-looking bicycle popping a wheelie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Grenadier guardsmen, unarmed and unhelmeted, stood by with ambulances.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sports equipment designed to make football safer encouraged more reckless moves and ended up making the sport more dangerous than unpadded, unhelmeted rugby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Demetrios rode unhelmeted, intending that these snarling little people of Megaris should plainly see the man whom they most feared and hated.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell
She was armed in white armour, but unhelmeted, a little axe in her hand, riding a great black charger, that reared at the door of her lodging and would not let her mount.
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
