Past tense of cycle
regular verb
The past tense of cycle is cycled. The past participle is also cycled.
Forms of cycle
| Base form (V1) | cycle /ˈsaɪ.kəl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | cycled /ˈsaɪkəld/ |
| Past participle (V3) | cycled /ˈsaɪkəld/ |
| Present participle | cycling /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | cycles /ˈsaɪkəlz/ |
Cycled in a sentence
- 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
- I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216
- He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.From the entry endurance
- The day after that, I was still in pain, so I cycled.2020 11, Paul D. Lowe, and 21 Global Authors, Mastering The Game Of Life: World Game-Changers Sharing Their Inspirational Stories Of…. From the entry montage
- Mrs Conchita Warren is an unusual name, I thought as I cycled towards Limehouse.2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry winnie
Meaning of cycle
- noun An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- noun A complete rotation of anything.
- noun A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
Questions about the past tense of cycle
- What is the past tense of cycle?
- The past tense of cycle is cycled.
- What is the past participle of cycle?
- The past participle of cycle is cycled.
- Is cycle a regular or irregular verb?
- Cycle is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cycle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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