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bicyclism

noun

Etymology

From bicycle + -ism.

  1. borrowed from bicycle
  2. suffixed as bicyclism — “bicycle + ism”

Definitions

  1. The art of riding a bicycle.

    • Here we have the ninth number of the fourth volume of a journal devoted to the great and noble art of Bicyclism. A modern art, unknown utterly to our forefathers, it has sprung into existence with intense velocity […]
    • One result of bicyclism is that many retired nooks and corners of our beautiful island are now more effectually explored than they ever were before; the grass-grown turnpike roads are no longer peopled only by farmers' manure-carts […]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for bicyclism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA