bike
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bike (plural bikes)
- Clipping of bicycle#English|bicycle.
- Clipping of motorbike#English|motorbike.
- (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike#English|village bike
- Synonyms: slapper, slag
- French: vélo
- German: Fahrrad, Rad, Velo (Switzerland), Drahtesel (colloquial)
- Italian: bici (slang)
- Portuguese: bici, bicicleta, bicla
- Russian: велосипе́д
- Spanish: bici
- French: moto
- German: Motorrad, Moped
- Italian: moto
- Portuguese: mota, moto
- Russian: мотоци́кл
- Spanish: moto
bike (bikes, present participle biking; past and past participle biked)
- To ride a bike.
- I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
- To travel by bike.
- It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
- German: Rad fahren, radeln (colloquial)
- Italian: pedalare
- Portuguese: andar de bicicleta, pedalar
- Portuguese: ir de bicicleta
bike (plural bikes)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 107:
- he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 107:
- (chiefly, Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
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