Crossword clues for autobus
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses. 2 (context cycling English) The group of cyclists in a race who form a large group behind the leading peloton.
WordNet
n. a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus]
Wikipedia
The autobus or the gruppetto is in bicycling terminology the name given to the group of cyclists in a road cycling race who form a large group behind the leading peloton.
The autobus forms on mountain stages when non- climbers fall off the back of the peloton during the climb. Gradually some riders fall off the back of the peloton and form a large group at the end of the race. These riders are generally sprinters or domestiques unconcerned about their finishing positions in the mountain stages. Their primary concern is beating the elimination time to ensure their survival in a multi-stage race such as the Tour de France.
If the autobus arrives outside the elimination time, the organisers may extend the elimination time if the autobus is larger than 20% of the riders. However if a rider is dropped from the autobus in this situation they will almost certainly be eliminated unless they have suffered an accident, in which case they may be exempted. The elimination time varies depending on the organisers; in the Tour de France there are differing coefficients depending on the difficulty of the stage. These coefficients are a percentage of the stage winner's time.
Due to the common interest in survival, the mood in the autobus has a greater sense of camaraderie than in the main peloton. Riders often assist one another with food and drinks despite riding for separate teams. It is sometimes referred to as " the laughing group".
Usage examples of "autobus".
AMHERST shivered a little despite the heated interior of the autobus, but grinned none the less as he made out the frosty towers of Hydropole.
So, added to steep, rocky drops, impassable by autobus, were the dank, muddy flats which only the hipp could traverse.
Amherst shivered a little despite the heated interior of the autobus, but grinned none the less as he made out the frosty towers of Hydropole.
De wagen was op de verkeerde rijbaan beland en tegen een autobus gebotst.
He directed the cavalcade of cars and large autobuses while birds chirped merrily in the trees on that sunny afternoon, but the birdsong was the only merriment as perfectly groomed men and women in muted mourning colors filed past him for the funeral of Madam C.
In fact the two companies, traveling on commandeered autobuses, were making a pleasant sightseeing jaunt of it.
At least this type of woman played it as a game, and took it as a matter of course that if there was to be no corrida in this town today, there was always an autobus leaving for the next ring within the half hour.
Creevey piled them, and one hundred and twenty-nine other visitors, into the railroad’s autobuses and drove northward, they were appalled by the bleak aspects of the land: no trees, no streams, no signs of rain.
In Emmerich, switch to local transport streetcars, autobuses, whatever.