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pedalling

vb. (context British English) (present participle of pedal English)

WordNet
pedal
  1. adj. of or relating to the feet; "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'"

  2. [also: pedalling, pedalled]

pedal
  1. n. a sustained bass note [syn: pedal point]

  2. a lever that is operated with the foot [syn: treadle, foot pedal, foot lever]

  3. [also: pedalling, pedalled]

pedal
  1. v. ride a bicycle [syn: bicycle, cycle, bike, wheel]

  2. operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument

  3. [also: pedalling, pedalled]

pedalling

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Usage examples of "pedalling".

And the two of them sang the Bicycling Song, as Ern called it, at the tops of their voices, pedalling in strict time to the rhythm of the lines!

He pulled her out of the hole and started pedalling upwards, his one leg only just pushing them against the weight of the purged oxygen set and the drag of the canvas food-bags at his waist.

Outside, along the gutter, were the trishaws, the evolution of the rickshaw, a bicycle and a sidecar with the coolie pedalling.

However in another whining article about how great they all were, these pedalling pricks, he read what terrible havoc four-wheel-drive vehicles, Range Rovers, Toyota Amazons, Mitsubishi Shoguns, were carving through the pedestrian and cycling population with their big bumpy bumpers.

And the two of them sang the Bicycling Song, as Ern called it, at the tops of their voices, pedalling in strict time to the rhythm of the lines!

Rex was pedalling furiously along the road to Hungerford with all the strength of his muscular legs.

One day, I told myself, one glorious day I will have a bike like that and I will wear long trousers with bicycle-clips and my school cap will sit jaunty on my head and I will go whizzing down the hill pedalling backwards with no hands on the handlebars!

A little further on a solitary officer came pedalling by on what was obviously a borrowed or stolen civilian push-bike, while every half-mile or so there were stragglers who from wounds or weariness had not been able to keep up with their units but were still doggedly endeavouring to escape from the Germans.

Annalisa was pedalling down the avenue on a black-framed Rudge with the nest of canteens dangling from the handlebars.

The great herds of game that once had covered the open grassland to the full range of the eye were long gone, and now small scrub cattle, multi-coloured and scrawny, grazed in mindless bovine herds tended by almost naked black piccaninnies who paused to watch Mark pedalling by, and greeted him with solemnity which turned to wideeyed pleasure when he returned the greeting in their own language.