CYCLIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyclist mean? 

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

1. a person who rides a bicycle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYCLIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who rides a bicycle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bicycler; bicyclist; biker; cyclist; wheeler

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

pedaler; pedaller (a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle (as a bicycle))

Instance hyponyms:

Bernard Hinault; Hinault (French racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1954))

Eddy Merckx; Merckx (Belgian racing cyclist who won the Tour de France five times (born in 1945))

Derivation:

cycle (a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals)

cycle (ride a bicycle)

 Context examples 

I am told that he was an excellent cyclist.

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

“A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths, and the moon was at the full. Halloa! what is this?”

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

And the flight was a swift one, since it took five miles before an expert cyclist could overtake them.

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

Another cyclist could have had nothing to do with the actual murder, nor were there any human foot-marks.

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

We had turned off the road, and were making our way up the hill, when, looking in the direction of Holdernesse Hall, I saw a cyclist coming swiftly along.

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

When in your report you said that you had seen the cyclist as you thought arrange his necktie in the shrubbery, that alone should have told me all.

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

A solitary cyclist was coming towards us.

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

It had been deserted when I left it, but now I saw a cyclist riding down it from the opposite direction to that in which I had come.

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

A quarter of an hour passed, and then a second cyclist appeared.

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

If he is an elderly man he is not this active cyclist who sprints away from that young lady’s athletic pursuit.

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