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cycle-a-thon

cycle-a-thon is the alternative form of cycleathon.

Meaning of cycleathon

Noun

cycleathon (plural cycleathons)

  1. A charity event in which participants cycle a long distance.
    • More than 30 people at Lovat Fields Retirement Village took part in a five-hour ‘cycleathon’, pedalling on exercise bikes in aid of two older persons’ charities.2011 January 26, “30 ‘village people’ get on their bikes”, in MK News, number 438, Milton Keynes, Bucks., page 15, column 1
    Synonyms:
    bikeathon

Forms of cycle-a-thon

pluralcycle-a-thons

Origin of cycle-a-thon

From cycle + -a-thon.

Questions about cycle-a-thon

What is cycle-a-thon the alternative form of?
Cycle-a-thon is the alternative form of cycleathon.

Words near cycle-a-thon in the dictionary

  1. cycle thresholds
  2. cycle time
  3. cycle times
  4. cycle track
  5. cycle tracks
  6. cycle-a-thon
  7. cycle-a-thons
  8. cycle-athon
  9. cycle-athons
  10. cycleability
  11. cycleanine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cycle-a-thon (page history and authors); cycleathon (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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