as in bicycles
a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars
likes to ride her mountain bike on weekends
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as in hordes
a great number of persons or creatures massed together
the boisterous bike that annually descends upon Edinburgh for the Fringe
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Recent Examples of bikes
New Atlas,
6 July 2026
This is not Copenhagen, which has wide boulevards where vehicles and bikes can be easily separated.
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Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2026
Use of e-bikes has only grown in the four years since the study.
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Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
5 July 2026
One of our simple pleasures was riding our bikes and screeching all the way down.
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Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2026
Tennis, pickleball, two fitness centers, and a car-free waterside path for cycling on the hotel’s loaner bikes provide recreational options.
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Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
Each bungalow is outfitted with two cruiser bikes that are perfect for getting around on property.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
3 July 2026
Mages and Kocher were thrown from their bikes and carried further from the point of impact than the bicycles, DPS investigators wrote in the report.
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Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 June 2026
Richard Mille has teamed up with Italian bicycle manufacturer Colnago on a new tourbillon, a timepiece that essentially takes many of the features of the brand’s sleek bikes and plops them right on your wrist.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
29 June 2026
Noun
And thirdly, the confidence Harley has in its 2026 bikes to facilitate such a thing, and on a wet racetrack no less, is quite frankly amazing.
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New Atlas,
6 July 2026
This is not Copenhagen, which has wide boulevards where vehicles and bikes can be easily separated.
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Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2026
Use of e-bikes has only grown in the four years since the study.
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Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
5 July 2026
One of our simple pleasures was riding our bikes and screeching all the way down.
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Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2026
Tennis, pickleball, two fitness centers, and a car-free waterside path for cycling on the hotel’s loaner bikes provide recreational options.
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Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
4 July 2026
Each bungalow is outfitted with two cruiser bikes that are perfect for getting around on property.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
3 July 2026
Mages and Kocher were thrown from their bikes and carried further from the point of impact than the bicycles, DPS investigators wrote in the report.
—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 June 2026
Richard Mille has teamed up with Italian bicycle manufacturer Colnago on a new tourbillon, a timepiece that essentially takes many of the features of the brand’s sleek bikes and plops them right on your wrist.
—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bikes
Noun
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Worse, the advent of electric bicycles and scooters has made the activity in the bike lanes chaotic.
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Canyon has been trialing this technology in cooperation with Volkswagen, and testing showed that connected vehicles and bicycles can successfully detect each other and exchange live safety information.
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With plenty of nervous energy, hordes of United States fans packed into KC Live!
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And now, Swift’s fans are set to descend on the city, accompanied by hordes of media who until recently had little to no concrete information about the hush-hush affair.
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Their strategy focuses on low-cost drone swarms, maximizing pilot effectiveness.
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Every wedding, every cherry blossom season in Japan, every birth, reactor accidents too, swarms of insects, kittens playing with woolen balls, people disfigured by war, palm trees at sunset—five billion photos a day.
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With their billowing sails, teakwood decks and mazes of ropes and rigging, ships like Eagle draw throngs of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of the past.
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The throngs of teenagers doing back flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing soccer in the street set the mood for the week.
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As of April 2026 there were around 62 active bird flu cases in the US, 39 of them commercial and 23 in backyard flocks, poultry scientist Dervan Bryan told Campus Insights Media.
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After their return to the Negev Lot and Abraham both have large flocks of livestock, but their herders begin to quarrel.
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Mexico enters a must-win World Cup knockout against Ecuador at Azteca after a perfect group stage, three clean sheets and record-shattering crowds.
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Travelers can arrive only 15 minutes before departure, skip the usual airport crowds with minimal security screening in a private, quiet terminal, and fly aboard a 30-seat semi-private jet with unlimited snacks and drinks.
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“Bikes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bikes. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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