CYCLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cycling mean? 

• CYCLING (noun)
  The noun CYCLING has 1 sense:

1. the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle

  Familiarity information: CYCLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYCLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cycling" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cycling"):

bicycling (riding a bicycle)

motorcycling (riding a motorcycle)

dune cycling (bicycling or motorcycling on sand dunes)

Derivation:

cycle (ride a bicycle)

cycle (ride a motorcycle)

 Context examples 

I remained in my hiding-place, and it was well that I did so, for presently the man reappeared, cycling slowly back.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cycling of ErbB1 is similar to that of EGF receptor and is included for contrast.

(ErbB3 Receptor Recycling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It was subsequently tested on tomatoes, lettuce, and rice, by cycling the crops.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

Testing the device's characteristics when subjected to temperature change (cycling), and high or low temperatures.

(Device Temperature Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

The finding is important for understanding how diatoms influence carbon cycling and respond to changes in the oceans, including warming waters.

(Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans, National Science Foundation)

In addition, reactive oxygen species may form during redox cycling which may contribute to this agent's cytotoxic activity.

(Carboquone, NCI Thesaurus)

Arf proteins cycle between GDP-bound, inactive and GTP-bound, active forms, and the cycling is regulated by specific GEPs and GAPs.

(ADP-Ribosylation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Water cycling through the ancient ocean crust was different than today's seawater, with much more high-temperature interactions that could have enriched the ocean with the heavy isotopes of oxygen.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

Amongst other processes, they regulate global carbon and nutrient cycling more than any other organisms or plants and thus greatly affect the amount of C02 in the atmosphere.

(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)

This function may modulate the number of microbes in the water, promote cycling of energy through a reef's food web, or provide stabilizing effects to the ecosystem.

(Bacteria living near coral reefs change in synchrony across distances, National Science Foundation)