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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cyclist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a champion swimmer/boxer/cyclist etc
▪ Lester Piggott is a former champion jockey.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
professional
▪ My object is simply to understand the constraints on professional cyclists to use drugs.
■ NOUN
motor
▪ Two police motor cyclists swept through the village street, turned round and went out again.
▪ In a number of countries for some years, the wearing of crash helmets by motor cyclists has been obligatory.
▪ But after seeing that motor cyclist, she may need a protector.
▪ For coming in the opposite direction was an endless flood of motor cyclists zooming home from the North West 200.
▪ The motor cyclist sped off away from Walberswick, was soon a speck which vanished round a bend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Cyclists are demanding more and safer cycle paths in the city.
▪ Heather, a keen cyclist, is hoping to raise £10,000 by riding her bike across Europe.
▪ Most cyclists in London have their bikes stolen eventually.
▪ The old creek trail is used by hikers and cyclists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A time trial, when cyclists ride alone, starting at one-minute intervals.
▪ But there are no hard and fast rules about the physique of a racing cyclist.
▪ In 1995 fewer than 200 cyclists and pedestrians under 15 were killed.
▪ It is an even greater danger to children, older people and cyclists.
▪ Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions, when cyclists were waiting to set off or just starting to pedal.
▪ Outside every field you find a home-made latrine, waiting for passing cyclists to contribute valuable fertilizer.
▪ The most noticeable difference is that the helmets are lower in the back than those intended strictly for cyclists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyclist

Cyclist \Cy"clist\ (s?"kl?st), n. A cycler.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cyclist

"bicyclist," 1882; see bicycle + -ist. Saxonists preferred wheelman.

Wiktionary
cyclist

n. 1 A person who rides a cycle, especially a bicycle, or who habitually engages in cycling. 2 (context punningly English) A user of the software language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CycL.

WordNet
cyclist

n. a person who rides a bicycle [syn: bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler]

Usage examples of "cyclist".

Cyclists glided silently along the Coton footpath, bundles perched on their rear decks.

Alfred Jarry sailed along the boulevard, passing people and other cyclists right and left.

It seemed that the Union Cyclist Internationale had banned the use of recumbents in official racing in 1938, Terran reckoning, and a peculiar snobbism had kept offworld parvenus from popularizing them in air biking.

A cyclist needs his lung capacity the way he needs his legs, and prolonged exposure to bleomycin would almost certainly end my career.

Several times during the afternoon, he had been forced to hide from cyclists who wandered past, lest they send him on to the probie area and use the truck for their own purposes.

Doctor Lewis Bleen, the world-famous trick cyclist, the head shrinker extraordinaire, down to see Petey in Brixton.

David Hurst, a cyclist who had stopped to rest in the lay-by on the northbound section of the road near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, raised the alarm, triggering a murder probe which remains unsolved to this day.

Along the way, Roads passed cyclists and pedestrians enjoying the first few minutes of the new day, while occasional flashes of light reflecting off Rosette cabs gliding along active tracks highlighted the movement of people on their way to or from work.

As I approached the bottom, less than one-third of a mile from where the cyclist had passed, it dawned on me that if mountain bikers were foolish enough to attack such a steep fire road, they, in turn, would certainly be foolish enough to descend it.

Only after 71 policemen from neighboring cities and the Highway Patrol, police dogs and water hoses were brought into action did the cyclists jump on their Harley-Davidsons and roar out of town.

Most cyclists are harmless weekend types, no more dangerous than skiers or skin-divers.

Legend has it that the cyclists literally took over the town, defied the police, manhandled local women, looted the taverns and stomped anyone who got in their way.

Sunday, with a pretty girl trailing behind one, and envious cyclists trying to race you.

Other cyclists arrived, dismounted and stood about, and their flame-lit faces expressed satisfaction, interest, curiositv.

Asiatic flying ships passed overhead, the two cyclists made a dash for cover until the sky was clear.