The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tandem \Tan"dem\, n.
A team of horses harnessed one before the other. ``He drove tandems.''
--Thackeray.-
A tandem bicycle or other vehicle.
Tandem bicycle or Tandem tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.
WordNet
n. a bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats [syn: bicycle-built-for-two, tandem]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "tandem bicycle".
He went into this one day, and his roving eye fell on a tandem bicycle.
He did not want a tandem bicycle, but that influenced him not at all.
According to my Uncle Cyril, two men named Nicholls and Jackson set out to ride to Brighton on a tandem bicycle, and were so unfortunate as to come into collision with a brewer's van.
The young man gave an angry blast on his klaxon at an inoffensive couple on a tandem bicycle.
Carlin led Spangler through a maze of statuary, frame-splintered portraits, pompous gold-plated birdcages, the dismembered skeleton of an ancient tandem bicycle.