wheels
/wiːlz/
wheels is the plural of wheel.
wheels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wheel.
Noun
wheels pl (plural only)
- An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels.
- Like my new wheels?
- rolling 18 wheels
- Well-developed thigh muscles.
- Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!1999 March 22, “OB205”, “Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet) - But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins, Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, HarperCollins, page 76
- Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
Meaning of wheel
Noun
wheel (plural wheels)
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette...1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- He fell asleep at the wheel.
- The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- I hear the noise about thy keel;
I hear the bell struck in the night:
I see the cabin-window bright;
I see the sailor at the wheel.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto X”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
- I hear the noise about thy keel;
- A spinning wheel.
- A potter's wheel.
- Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 18:3
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- Synonyms:
- breaking wheel
Phrases with wheels
- ab wheels
- on wheels
- 3rd wheels
- 5th wheels
- big wheels
- cam wheels
- cat wheels
- cog wheels
- dog wheels
- hot wheels
- joy wheels
- mag wheels
184 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pit wheels
- pot wheels
- sun wheels
- tub wheels
- wheels out
- back wheels
- buff wheels
- bull wheels
- code wheels
- disk wheels
- fish wheels
- free wheels
- gear wheels
- hand wheels
- idle wheels
- kick wheels
- main wheels
- mani wheels
- mill wheels
- news wheels
- omni wheels
- plot wheels
- poly wheels
- rear wheels
- skew wheels
- star wheels
- tide wheels
- type wheels
- wheels away
- wire wheels
- worm wheels
- alloy wheels
- bevel wheels
- brake wheels
- brush wheels
- chore wheels
- click wheels
- color wheels
- crown wheels
- daisy wheels
- drive wheels
- fifth wheels
- front wheels
- fudge wheels
- great wheels
- heart wheels
- mitre wheels
- mouse wheels
- pilot wheels
- pizza wheels
- plate wheels
- ponce wheels
- power wheels
- press wheels
- print wheels
- scoop wheels
- spare wheels
- split wheels
- steel wheels
- swing wheels
- third wheels
- wagon wheels
- water wheels
- wheels about
- wheels round
- change wheels
- colour wheels
- escape wheels
- Ferris wheels
- Geneva wheels
- German wheels
- monkey wheels
- paddle wheels
- pastry wheels
- Pelton wheels
- phonic wheels
- planet wheels
- pounce wheels
- prayer wheels
- scroll wheels
- set of wheels
- ship's wheels
- spider wheels
- stream wheels
- wheels around
- balance wheels
- buffing wheels
- control wheels
- diamond wheels
- driving wheels
- English wheels
- flicker wheels
- flutter wheels
- hamster wheels
- hell on wheels
- jagging wheels
- lantern wheels
- leading wheels
- Leibniz wheels
- lottery wheels
- mortise wheels
- pattern wheels
- Persian wheels
- praying wheels
- ratchet wheels
- sets of wheels
- spinner wheels
- squeaky wheels
- trammel wheels
- trundle wheels
- walking wheels
- wheels of life
- wheels of time
- breaking wheels
- exercise wheels
- grinding wheels
- kick the wheels
- licorice wheels
- meals on wheels
- medicine wheels
- Poncelet wheels
- potter's wheels
- reaction wheels
- roulette wheels
- spinning wheels
- sprocket wheels
- squirrel wheels
- steering wheels
- throwing wheels
- trailing wheels
- training wheels
- wheels of death
- wheels of steel
- ab roller wheels
- Archibald wheels
- artillery wheels
- Catharine wheels
- Catherine wheels
- foundling wheels
- liquorice wheels
- measuring wheels
- snowflake wheels
- wheels and deals
- worms and wheels
- Zuppinger wheels
- grease the wheels
- great spur wheels
- lapidary's wheels
- roll one's wheels
- sit in the wheels
- skateboard wheels
- spin one's wheels
- spun one's wheels
- Wartenberg wheels
- wheels of fortune
- greased the wheels
- greases the wheels
- observation wheels
- spins one's wheels
- wheels are turning
- epicycloidal wheels
- greasing the wheels
- the wheels came off
- the wheels fall off
- the wheels fell off
- wheels within wheels
- with training wheels
- human roulette wheels
- spin someone's wheels
- spinning one's wheels
- spun someone's wheels
- reinventions of wheels
- spins someone's wheels
- butterflies upon wheels
- set the wheels in motion
- squeaky wheels get oiled
- sets the wheels in motion
- spinning someone's wheels
- until the wheels fall off
- the wheels came off the bus
- the wheels fell off the bus
- setting the wheels in motion
- the wheels came off the wagon
- the wheels fell off the wagon
Words that rhyme with wheels
Questions about wheels
- What does wheels mean?
- Wheels means an automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels.
- What is wheels the plural of?
- Wheels is the plural of wheel.
- What part of speech is wheels?
- Wheels is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wheels?
- Wheels is pronounced /wiːlz/.
Words near wheels in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wheels (page history and authors); wheel (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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