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# bicycle

«bicycle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pushing pedals…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bicycle, bicycles); verb (bicycle — rare, ride a bicycle)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bicycle is a vehicle with two wheels that you ride by pushing pedals with your feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#m1)

2) It is often called a bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted thing with 2 wheels; a ride with a distance or a speed; a price; wheel puzzles with tricycles and cars. In science: gears, brakes and friction; the bicycle is a green way to travel. In everyday life and safety: riding to school, wearing a helmet, bike lanes. Phrases: «ride a bicycle», «by bicycle», «bicycle helmet», «bicycle lane».

### examples

- A bicycle has 2 wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x1)
- There are 6 bicycles and 2 cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x2)
- He rides his bicycle 5 km a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x3)
- The bicycle costs 120 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x4)
- Always wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x5)
- She learned to ride a bicycle without stabilisers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x6)
- The brakes on my bicycle use friction to stop the wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x7)
- Lots of people in the Netherlands go to work by bicycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x8)
- Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a bicycle». «Ride a bicycle», not «drive a bicycle». «Bi-» means two (bicycle 2 wheels, tricycle 3). Maths: hides «2 wheels each». Trap: in wheel puzzles with tricycles (3) and cars (4) the wheels differ.

### In the corpora

- [The safety bicycle with two equal wheels and a chain came in the 1880s and let many women travel alone for the first time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/62-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses/23/)
- [If some riders are on full tandems and the rest ride a bicycle each, first find how many ride alone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/220-riders-on-tandems-and-bicycles/1/)
- [A bicycle turns the push of your legs into rolling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/0/)
- [A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle has 3, and a car has 4.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/25-bicycles-and-other-wheels/21/)
- [A bicycle has 2 wheels, a tricycle 3, a car 4, and a usual train carriage 8.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/42-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bicycle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bicycle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.