Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who rides or races a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who reckons by cycles, or believes in the cyclic recurrence of certain classes of events; specifically, one who believes in the cyclic character of meteorologic phenomena, and of political and commercial crises, and endeavors to connect them with the cyclic changes of the sun's spots.
- noun One who rides a bicycle or a tricycle. Also
cycler .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cycler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who rides a
cycle , especially abicycle , or who habitually engages incycling . - noun punningly A user of the
software language CycL.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who rides a bicycle
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Examples
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But take a four-way stop, when the cyclist is actually in the roadway.
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There's hate toward cyclists by some and I fear this reaction to remove one's self from the word cyclist is in response to that.
We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola 2010
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However, there are always some gray judgement zones on whether to pass when another cyclist is coming the other way and you're not quite sure when you'll cross.
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Britain's sprint cyclist is having dark thoughts about the 2012 Olympics but is hell bent on triple gold in London
Victoria Pendleton: 'Dreaming of being chased by a killer is normal' Donald McRae 2010
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An unexperienced cyclist is likely to look over their left shoulder rather than shift over.
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I also agree this tends to happen most when the passing cyclist is faster, slicker, 'superior' or macho in attitude ...
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Becoming a professional cyclist is a difficult journey.
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The thing about being an endurance athlete, especially a cyclist, is they keep ticking at their best until their mid - to late 30s, he said.
David Millar hopes for redemption medal in Commonwealth TT 2010
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While it may actually be wide enough for your average car, the fear that you may slightly swipe the cyclist is still there.
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If a driver absolutely must call a cyclist something, the driver may call him “Wim van Est,” or else “Heidi Van de Vijver” if the cyclist is a woman or person of indeterminate gender.
Archive 2008-03-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008
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