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# bike

«bike» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bicycle, a thing with two wheels that you ride by…** — 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 (bike, bikes); verb (bike, bikes, biked, biking)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) A bike can also mean a motorbike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#m2)

3) To bike is to ride a bicycle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted, with wheels; or a ride with a distance, speed and time; in safety lessons, helmets, lights and road rules; phrases «ride a bike», «bike helmet», «bike lane», «bike path»

### examples

- There are 7 bikes. How many wheels? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x1)
- She rides her bike 3 miles to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x2)
- He bikes at 10 miles an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x3)
- A bike costs 150 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x4)
- Always wear a helmet when you ride a bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x5)
- I learned to ride a bike without training wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x6)
- We biked along the bike path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x7)
- Lock your bike at the bike rack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x8)
- His bike has a flat tire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x9)
- Use hand signals before you turn on your bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bike/#x10)

### note

Bikes have 2 wheels each, tricycles have 3: wheels = bikes × 2. Trap: a round trip is twice the distance. Safety: wear a helmet, ride on the correct side of the road, and use lights at night.

### In the corpora

- [That is still copying, the way repainting your mate's bike doesn't make it your bike.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/1/)
- [Squashed air pushes back hard, which is how bike tyres and footballs work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/4-solids-liquids-and-gases/8/)
- [Leave a bike out in the rain all winter and its chain and bolts turn orange-brown and flaky.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/13-rust-irons-slow-fire/0/)
- [Whose shows belonging: «the girl whose bike was stolen».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/16/)
- [For one owner, add 's: the dog's bone, Sam's bike.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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