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BICYCLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bicycling mean?
• BICYCLING (noun)
The noun BICYCLING has 1 sense:
1. riding a bicycle
Familiarity information: BICYCLING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Riding a bicycle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bicycling" is a kind of...):
cycling (the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle)
Context examples
The researchers used a stationary bicycling test to gauge aerobic fitness.
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My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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