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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motorbike
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/motorbike etc engine
▪ I heard the sound of a car engine in the distance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
ride
▪ The Corporal was still on the wall, all credit to him, legs astride as if he was riding a motorbike.
▪ Frank is old now, over seventy, and he has stopped riding his motorbike.
▪ Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike, but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet.
▪ Ben Hunt has been riding motorbikes since he was three.
▪ Nas loved riding his motorbike through the Suffolk countryside and that's what he was doing on the night he died.
▪ Guy Aged sixteen, Guy was riding a borrowed motorbike when he fell off and hit his head.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A woodcock sounded in the near distance, like some one trying to kick-start an old motorbike.
▪ Jimmy, dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket, had arrived on his motorbike.
▪ Luckily, as they returned to Cockroach, Wednesday's dormitory, they bumped into Matron who was fixing her motorbike.
▪ The yard was empty except for a neat looking two-horse box and at the far end a large powerful motorbike.
▪ Yesterday we had one working motorbike, and tomorrow we will have one working motorbike.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motorbike

Motorbike \Mo"tor*bike`\, n.

  1. a light two-wheeled vehicle containing a motor for propulsion. It is lighter in construction and has a lower speed than a motorcycle.

  2. Specifically: a small motorcycle with a low frame and small weels and elevated handlebars.

    Syn: minibike.

  3. Specifically: a bicyle with a motor attached for propulsion.

Wiktionary
motorbike

n. 1 (UK) A motorcycle. 2 (US) A small and light motorcycle. vb. to ride a motorbike, to travel by motorbike.

WordNet
motorbike

n. small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars [syn: minibike]

Usage examples of "motorbike".

Tourists, businesspeople, girls in trendy pantsuits, messengers on huge motorbikes.

I could not forgive Fritz for manipulating me into bringing down the Rolls and I returned quickly to my old pattern of ticketing small motorbikes and bicycles.

The streets were cleared of traffic for miles around while his armoured American Packard, surrounded by a legion of NKVD bodyguard in trucks and on motorbikes, took him to a bakery co-operative near the Leningrad Station.

Rick said unnecessarily as the motorbikes came to a halt immediately outside.

Buses, taxis, cows, bullock-carts, bicycles, water buffalo, motorbikes, trucks, and motorized rickshaws contended for space on the overtaxed highway, with right-of-way going to the biggest vehicles and the loudest horns.

Other kids were going off grapepicking in France or working in supermarkets to pay off the hire purchase on their motorbikes, or having it off in Ibiza.

Once, as he nosed the bakkie across a junction where the robots had failed, they saw a motorbike on its side, the front wheel still spinning, and in the road a shoe.

A lot of Bovver boys on their motorbikes by the war memorial eyed Taggie with great interest.

Apart from the rows of mute lorries and security vans, the only vehicles parked there were a small motorbike belonging to the gate man and Breadcake's Rolls Royce.

Apart from the rows of mute lorries and security vans, the only vehicles parked there were a small motorbike belonging to the gate man and Breadcake's Rolls Royce.

At the commercial air terminal he watched a man ride up on a motorbike and climb to the control tower.

I resented the topless sunbathers, the palm trees and aloe vera plants, the shingly beaches and the exquisite blue sea, the casino and the hotels, the villas on the hills, the skyscraper apartment blocks, the suntanned youths on motorbikes, the wind surfers and paraskiers, the speedboats, pedalos and beach huts.

And everyone knew about Rio, the gorgeous bad boys on motorbikes, streaking past with their razors at the ready.

Of course the first mass evictions and the sight of their daughter on the news being carried away by policemen was rather a shock, but still, better a bobby manhandling her than some dreadful yob who rode a motorbike and washed his jeans in urine.

Hunter then turned his attention back to the motorbike, firing off a long spectacular barrage that surprised the driver.