WordNet
n. the wheel of a bicycle
Wikipedia
Bicycle Wheel is a readymade by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a bicycle fork with front wheel mounted upside-down on a wooden stool.
In 1913 at his Paris studio he mounted the bicycle wheel upside down onto a stool, spinning it occasionally just to watch it. Later he denied that its creation was purposeful, though it has come to be known as the first of his readymades. "I enjoyed looking at it," he said. "Just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in the fireplace." It was not until he began making readymades a few years later in New York that he decided Bicycle Wheel was a readymade. There he realized the 2nd version.
The original version of 1913 and the version of 1916-17 were lost. Duchamp recreated yet another version of the sculpture in 1951. Bicycle Wheel is said to be the first kinetic sculpture.
Usage examples of "bicycle wheel".
This reminds Lawrence of yet another phenomenon related to the bicycle wheel and the Enigma machine.
She was vaguely aware of her forearms cramping, sweat streaming down her face and neck, soaking her gray Danfield T-shirt, the frantic hiss of the belt on the bicycle wheel.
In his right hand the guide carried a sharpened spoke from a bicycle wheel, in the other a bunch of yellow plastic strips cut from a cheap shopping-bag.
Samplers walked the lines of their grids, pushing along a bicycle wheel with an odometer attached to measure off the distance between sampling points.
I know we get our fair share of traffic in here from that floatin bicycle wheel of yours, but not that much.
It would look like a bicycle wheel sort of, whereas the hub opened downward.