bicycle
noun
a vehicle with two wheels in tandem, usually propelled by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a chain, and having handlebars for steering and a saddlelike seat.
were bicycling
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past progressiveof bicycle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Bicycle Kitchen, when we started that in 2000, there were like 30 people who were bicycling for transportation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
Jay Styles, who lives in Pattee Creek outside Alberton, said he and his wife were bicycling on Fish Creek Road when they came across the highline festival.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2016
Chuck and Gerry were bicycling on Lower River Road one day without their kids.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 13, 2016
His diversions were bicycling, amateur theatricals and courting a blackhaired belle, Katherine Dunn, who had moved from his neighborhood to the distant Bronx.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were bicycling together one day along the Trumpington Road, when a form appeared, coming to meet us.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
