bicycling
bicycling is the present participle and gerund of bicycle.
Meaning of bicycle
Verb
bicycle (third-person singular simple present bicycles, present participle bicycling, simple past and past participle bicycled)
- 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
- 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
Noun
bicycling (countable and uncountable, plural bicyclings)
- The act of riding a bicycle.
- In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW...1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3
- It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.2019, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation
Synonyms of bicycling
Forms of bicycling
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Words formed from bicycling
Phrases with bicycling
Questions about bicycling
- What does bicycling mean?
- Bicycling means the act of riding a bicycle.
- What is bicycling the present participle and gerund of?
- Bicycling is the present participle and gerund of bicycle.
- What part of speech is bicycling?
- Bicycling is a noun.
- What is the plural of bicycling?
- The plural of bicycling is bicyclings.
Words near bicycling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bicycling (page history and authors); bicycle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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