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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tricycle
noun
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▪ And there's a special appearance from the Dean of Hereford cathedral, complete with tricycle.
▪ As he opened the door and looked out he thought he heard the squeak of a tricycle.
▪ Both little girls were silent, pale and tight-lipped while Liz tended to the gash, caused by a falling tricycle.
▪ I pushed Janir home on his tricycle, made him dinner and put him to bed.
▪ It seemed to withstand the onslaught of bicycles, tricycles and roller skates with scarcely a scratch to show.
▪ One young boy exercised by riding a red tricycle around the wards.
▪ There are no tricycles in the hallway, no small sandals behind the doors.
▪ They came to steal a Big Wheel tricycle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tricycle

Tricycle \Tri"cy*cle\, n. [Pref. tri- + cycle as inbicycle.] A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tricycle

1828, "three-wheeled horse-drawn carriage," from French tricycle (1827); see tri- + cycle (n.). The pedal-powered version is first attested 1868.

Wiktionary
tricycle

n. 1 A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children. 2 (context Philippines English) http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/cycle%20rickshaw (a motorized three-wheeler, the Philippine version of the rickshaw, consisting of a motorbike attached to a sidecar which may be customised according to the owner’s choice. Widely used as a public means of transportation alongside the more popular Philippine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jeepney). v

  2. To ride a tricycle.

WordNet
tricycle

n. a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals [syn: trike, velocipede]

Wikipedia
Tricycle

A tricycle, often abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gravity-powered) three-wheeled vehicle.

Some tricycles, such as cycle rickshaws (for passenger transport) and freight trikes, are used for commercial purposes, especially in the developing world, particularly Africa and Asia.

In the West, adult-sized tricycles are used primarily for recreation, shopping, and exercise. Tricycles are favoured by children and senior adults alike for their apparent stability versus a bicycle; however a conventional trike has poor dynamic lateral stability, and the rider must take care when cornering to avoid tipping the trike over. Unconventional designs such as recumbents have a lower centre of gravity so require less care.

Tricycle (disambiguation)

A tricycle is a non-motorized vehicle with three wheels.

Tricycle may also refer to:

Tricycle (album)

Tricycle is the first live album by Québécois singer and musician Daniel Bélanger. The album was certified Gold by the CRIA in March 2002.

Tricycle (song)

"Tricycle" is a single by British Electronica duo Psapp. It was the first single taken from The Only Thing I Ever Wanted in Europe. In the US, however, it was the second single, with " Hi" being the first.

Following the use of Psapp's "Cosy In The Rocket" in the soundtrack of hit TV show Grey's Anatomy, the single reached the Top 20 in the United Kingdom and France, and peaked inside the Top 40 in Austria, Germany and Australia. In the United States, the single reached #49.

Usage examples of "tricycle".

Jennie learned to ride a tricycle and she went wheeling down the halls, chattering and hooting, and making a hairy menace of herself.

Just inside the door, an overfilled notice board advertised everything from used chips and bioware to a secondhand tricycle.

As we approached the dining room Jennie became more and more excited, riding ahead on her tricycle, pedaling furiously, her maniacal hoots echoing along the corridor.

Another child clung to his right leg, while a third rode his tricycle at various walls and doorways, making quite loud sounds with his mouth.

Just inside the door, an overfilled notice board advertised everything from used chips and bioware to a secondhand tricycle.

The brick houses presented a quiet solidarity to the day, the green painted porches concealing their secrets of plastic tricycles, full recycle boxes, and sagging couches.

All this, you must realize, was in the good old days when the sight of a motor-car on the street was an event, and it was quite safe for tiny children to go tricycling and whopping their way to school in the centre of the highway.

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles - the fruits of peace.

This was Donna Reed country: green shutters on the windows, pansies in the flower boxes, a tricycle on the sidewalk, and a dog bone lying in the yard.

One report tells of a totally blind boy who could ride his tricycle at a good speed round the block near his home, using 'facial vision'.

With the two landing gear wheels and small tail wheel, we can work out a tricycle gear system.

His mother, so stunned by her grief that she seemed to exist in a glass ball of utter calm, told police that Matty had been riding his tricycle up and down the sidewalk beside the house, which stood on the corner of Kansas Street and Kossuth Lane.

A tricycle was parked next to the first step, and a red ball lay under a manicured shrub, but most of the cheerful tangle of toys was in the fenced backyard that surrounded the pool.

I looked around Susan's backyard and saw a swing set, a sandbox, and a tricycle.

Charles Westmacott hopes that he may have the extreme pleasure of a ride with Miss Ida Walker upon his tandem tricycle.