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bicycled

bicycled is the simple past and past participle of bicycle.

Meaning of bicycle

Verb

bicycle (third-person singular simple present bicycles, present participle bicycling, simple past and past participle bicycled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
    • “At least it cannot be your health," said he, as his keen eyes darted over her; "so ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy.” […] “Yes, I bicycle a good deal, Mr. Holmes, and that has something to do with my visit to you to-day.”1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC
  2. (historical, transitive) To physically ship (a recorded programme) to another broadcasting entity.
    • “Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.2002, Roger Phillips Smith, The Other Face of Public Television, page 56

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Questions about bicycled

What is bicycled the simple past and past participle of?
Bicycled is the simple past and past participle of bicycle.

Words near bicycled in the dictionary

  1. bicycle tourist
  2. bicycle wrench
  3. bicycle wrenches
  4. bicycleability
  5. bicycleable
  6. bicycled
  7. bicycleless
  8. bicyclelike
  9. bicycler
  10. bicyclers
  11. bicycles

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