bicycling

English

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Verb

bicycling

1. present participle and gerund of bicycle

Noun

bicycling (countable and uncountable, plural bicyclings)

1. The act of riding a bicycle.

   Synonym: cycling

   • 1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3:

     In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.

   • 2019, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation:

     It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.

Derived terms

• bicycling monarchy