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Main group, in the Tour de France
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peloton
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Peloton is the second album by The Delgados , released in 1998 on their own label, Chemikal Underground . The title refers to the large main group in a road bicycle race .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, "small body of soldiers, platoon," from French peleton , derivative of pelote "ball, heap, platoon" (11c.); see platoon .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) A platoon. 2 (context cycling English) The main group of riders formed during a cycling road race.
Usage examples of peloton.
The spectator rarely sees the technical side of cycling, but behind the gorgeous rainbow blur of the peloton is the more boring reality that road racing is a carefully calibrated thing, and often a race is won by a mere fraction of acceleration that was generated in a performance lab or a wind tunnel or a velodrome long before the race ever started.
I would learn that in the peloton, other riders can totally mess you up, just to keep you from winning.
If you flick somebody in the peloton, it means to screw him, just to get him.
The next day the peloton rode in honor of Fabio, and gave our team a ceremonial stage victory.
The peloton was still bunched up, full of banging and maneuvering, and it would be a tricky crossing.
Guys lay prone on the asphalt as the rest of the peloton bore down on them, and more riders fell.
Sestriere, on the French-Italian border, and I knew what the peloton was thinking: that I would fold.
The spectators had been flirting with disaster for days, skipping across the road in front of the peloton, and now a frenzied fan had leaped into the middle of the road with his Instamatic, and stood there taking pictures.
Somehow, we kept most of them in check and controlled the peloton, but the days were broiling and full of tension.
At the end of Stage 17, a long flat ride to Bordeaux, some nutcase shot pepper spray into the peloton, and a handful of riders had to pull over, vomiting.
According to tradition, the peloton would cruise at a leisurely pace, until we saw the Eiffel Tower and reached the Arc de Triomphe, where the U.
He thought he heard the whisper of a groan from the rest of the peloton as they went out the back.
Operation Peloton was a spectacular failure, and the objective was never accomplished.
He stayed back in the pack for the uphill grind, and then, for three glorious minutes, he broke free from the domestiques in the peloton and came right up at the shoulder of Aldo Cipollini.
He describes now the peloton of execution charging their rifles and one of the terrorists begging for mercy.