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- verb UK Present participle of
pedal .
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Examples
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Typically, the sessions involve four sets of exercise, such as pedalling an exercise bike or running on a treadmill, three times a week.
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"Keep pedalling – you are doing alright," he said.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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Take tonight for example: I am sitting at the computer trying to write while behind me my sixteen year old daughter is pedalling fit to burst on our exercise bike while singing songs from Sweeney Todd at the top of her voice, or doing very scary impressions of Pennywise the clown from IT!!
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Actually, the gap is probably there for the same sort of reason as blank space in a painting or having some action in a play happen off stage, partly to allow the readers/viewers/audience to fill in with their imaginations and partly to provide soft pedalling so as not to draw attention away from the other stuff.
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Then, without a word, and just the slightest of waves, he moves ahead, pedalling faster and faster.
Bradley Wiggins: It's a way of life and you need to buy into it 2012
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Be funny to watch the back pedalling and squirming that goes on. on February 12, 2010 at 8: 58 pm cheesepuff
Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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How she negotiated the fiendish pedalling and half-pedalling, on which whole essays are written, must remain a secret, since her feet were all but hidden beneath her flowing jade and aqua outfit.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010
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Her 25-year-old husband makes about 300 taka £3.27 a day pedalling a rickshaw – the most common way of making money for the rural unskilled who migrate to the city.
Poor nutrition stunts growth of nearly half of under-fives in Bangladesh 2012
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I lurked there many an hour buzzed to the nines on what they were pedalling.
Wellington snapshots Another Outspoken Female 2009
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Antora's 25-year-old husband makes about 300 taka £2.25 a day pedalling a rickshaw – the most common work for the rural unskilled who migrate to the city.
Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year, says survey by Save the Children 2012
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