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motorbike

/ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌbaɪk/US/ˈmoʊtɚˌbaɪk/

motorbike noun: a motorcycle.

motorbike: a motorcycle
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Noun

motorbike (plural motorbikes)

  1. (informal) A motorcycle.
    • Driving fuel-efficient vehicles and using motorbikes when possible to replace or supplement vehicles are two of the ways Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees are attempting to become less fuelish and to lower transportation costs.1980, Montana Outdoors - Volume 11, page 8
    • Jumping on the Metro and then a local train, we headed out to National Central University at Jhongli, where I had been invited to take a look at a motorbike powered by compressed air.2009, Charley Boorman, “Betel Nuts and Beauties”, in Jeff Gulvin, editor, Right to the Edge : Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 260
    Synonyms:
    moto
  2. (US) A small and light motorcycle.

Verb

motorbike (third-person singular simple present motorbikes, present participle motorbiking, simple past and past participle motorbiked)

  1. To ride a motorbike; to travel by motorbike.
    • We motorbiked all over the US that summer.
    • Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.2024 June 16, Senay Boztas, “‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise”, in The Guardian

motorbike meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

motorbike in Hindi

motorcycle
मोटरसाइकिल moṭarsāikil

motorbike in Tamil

உந்துருளி, மோட்டார் வண்டி, நாங்கள் உந்துருளியை செலுத்தினோம்

motorbike in Urdu

موٹر بائیک

motorbike in Bengali

মোটরবাইক
More languagesFewer languages
motorbike in Malayalam
മോട്ടോർബൈക്ക്
motorbike in Punjabi
ਮੋਟਰਬਾਇਕ
motorbike in Gujarati
મોટરબાઈક, મોટરબાઇક
motorbike in Odia
ମୋଟରବାଇକ
motorbike in Sanskrit
यन्त्रद्विचक्रिका yantradvicakrikā
motorbike in Nepali
मोटरबाइक

Examples of motorbike in a sentence

  • He has a lot of luck with the ladies. Perhaps it's because of his new motorbike.
  • After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
  • It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.

All 20 example sentences with motorbike

Synonyms of motorbike

Forms of motorbike

Noun
pluralmotorbikes
Verb
third-person singular presentmotorbikes
present participlemotorbiking
past participlemotorbiked
pastmotorbiked

Plural of motorbike: motorbikes

Origin of motorbike

From motor + bike.

Words formed from motorbike

Questions about motorbike

What does motorbike mean?
Motorbike means a motorcycle.
What is motorbike in Hindi?
Motorbike in Hindi is मोटरसाइकिल (moṭarsāikil). See Motorbike meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is motorbike?
Motorbike can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce motorbike?
Motorbike is pronounced /ˈməʊtə(ɹ)ˌbaɪk/ (UK).
What is the plural of motorbike?
The plural of motorbike is motorbikes.

Words near motorbike in the dictionary

  1. motoraxons
  2. motorbicycle
  3. motorbicycles
  4. motorbicyclist
  5. motorbicyclists
  6. motorbike
  7. motorbike sport
  8. motorbiked
  9. motorbiker
  10. motorbikers
  11. motorbikes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: motorbike (page history and authors); motorbike (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); motorbike (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); motorbike (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); motorbike (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); motorbike (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); motorbike (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); motorbike (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); motorbike (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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