freewheeled

Verb

freewheel (third-person singular simple present freewheels, present participle freewheeling, simple past and past participle freewheeled)

1. (intransitive) Of a gear, to continue spinning after disengagement.
2. (intransitive) Of a cyclist, to ride a bicycle without pedalling, e.g. downhill.
   • On her elderly bicycle with the basketwork carrier on the handle-bars, Dorothy free-wheeled down the hill, doing mental arithmetic with three pounds nineteen and fourpence--her entire stock of money until next quarter-day.1935, George Orwell, chapter 3, in A Clergyman’s Daughter
3. Of a motorist, to operate a motor vehicle which is coasting without power, e.g. downhill.
   • Silently and gracefully I free-wheeled across the path of three juggernauts, [...] glided across the hard shoulder and came to rest halfway up a grass bank.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 78
4. (broadly, figuratively) To operate free from constraints.

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