cycling

Verb (1)

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

1. To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
   • When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.2026 January 16, Danny Heitman, “An empty nester’s ode to the cycles of laundry – and life”, in The Christian Science Monitor
2. To turn power off and back on
   • Avoid cycling the device unnecessarily.
3. To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
   • They have their cycling game going tonight.

Verb (2)

cycle (third-person singular simple present cycles, present participle cycling, simple past and past participle cycled)

1. To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
   • Sometimes I would cycle over to Beckenham to watch the boat trains and Kent Coast expresses of the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which seemed very superior to its future partner.1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, pages 458-459

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