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# tricycle

«tricycle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small bike with three wheels, one at the front and two…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tricycle, tricycles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tricycle is a small bike with three wheels, one at the front and two at the back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#m1)

2) It is easy to balance, so young children ride tricycles; some grown-ups ride big ones to carry goods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted thing with 3 wheels, often mixed with bicycles in wheel puzzles; «tri-» means three (triangle, tripod). In everyday life: toddlers ride tricycles in the park or at preschool. Phrases: «ride a tricycle», «trike» (short form).

### examples

- A tricycle has 3 wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x1)
- There are 4 bicycles and 3 tricycles in the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x2)
- Bikes and tricycles have 25 wheels in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x3)
- How many wheels do 6 tricycles have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x4)
- My little brother rides his tricycle around the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x5)
- A tricycle does not fall over when it stops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x6)
- The preschool has five red trikes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x7)
- «Tri» means three, as in triangle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a tricycle»; short form «trike». Bicycle = 2 wheels, tricycle = 3 wheels. Maths: hides «3 wheels each», so wheels = tricycles × 3. Trap: the number 3 is not written in the problem; you must know it.

### In the corpora

- [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 «tricycle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tricycle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.