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bikes

bikes is the plural of bike.

bikes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bike.

Meaning of bike

Noun (1)

bike (plural bikes)

  1. Any vehicle sharing some characteristics with a bicycle or motorbike, such as pedal power, a handlebar, or a saddle.
    • He warmed up the engine; the bike hovered off the ground despite his weight and the extra equipment.2017 July 17, Nell's Tavern, Larry Brasington, page 50

Noun (2)

bike (plural bikes)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, collective, informal) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
    • like blue bottle flees in a blink of sunshine, […]A bonny bike there’s o’ them!1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James...
  2. (Scotland, broadly, collective, informal) A crowd of people.

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Words that rhyme with bikes

Questions about bikes

What is bikes the plural of?
Bikes is the plural of bike.

Words near bikes in the dictionary

  1. biker jacket
  2. bikeroad
  3. bikeroads
  4. bikers
  5. bikery
  6. bikes
  7. bikeshare
  8. bikeshares
  9. bikesharing
  10. bikeshed
  11. bikeshedded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bikes (page history and authors); bike (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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