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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trike
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A cessna is a trike aircraft because it has a nose wheel and 2 other wheels under the fuselage.
▪ Impulsively, the Squat swung the trike to pull alongside, so that one wheel dragged on the slower strip.
▪ It's easy to look at your child harmlessly pedalling along on his trike without noticing he's heading towards moving swings.
▪ Minnebraker started manufacturing trikes to satisfy the demands of his aircraft parts business.
▪ The trike skidded and tumbled, throwing Grimm over the handlebars.
▪ The trikes are made by Signal Hill-based TriCruiser Inc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trike

short for tricycle, 1883.

Wiktionary
trike

n. A tricycle. vb. to tricycle; to travel by tricycle.

WordNet
trike

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

Wikipedia
Trike

Trike may refer to:

Trike (EP)

Trike is a single released by Australian rock band You Am I in 1997. It was released to make two tracks ("Trike" and "Opportunities") added to the international release of Hourly, Daily available to Australian fans, along with three extra B-sides. "Trike" and "Opportunities" were recorded in late 1996 and replaced "Someone Else's Home" and "Moon Shines on Trubble".

Usage examples of "trike".

More letters flashed in the helmet display, warning that this was the last exit before the border tolls, and she eased the trike sideways into the slower lane.

Trikes and four-wheelers were parked in droves, and mixed among them were a few jeeps and trucks.

It was an oldtype M16 with a triangular stock, left leaning against the trike.

When the light was green, the trikes and four-wheelers would resume their travel.

The trikes and four-wheelers scooted to the sides of the highway, some to the left and some to the right, opening an aisle for the Technic police and the SEAL.

Instead of staring at the SEAL, as any ordinary, curious person would do, the occupants of the trikes and four-wheelers averted their faces, deliberately turning away from the transport.

And the trikes and four-wheelers would be as fleas assaulting a grizzly if they endeavored to impede the SEAL.

The vehicle slewed to the right, its rear end smashing into the row of trikes and bowling them over.

He saw dozens of trikes and four-wheelers crash as they wildly endeavored to avoid the melee.

By dawn tomorrow or the day after that he would pass into Nevada, triking Owyhee first and then Mountain City, and in Mountain City there was a man named Christopher Bradenton who would see that he had a clean car and some clean papers and then the country would come alive in all its glorious possibilities, a body politic with its network of roads embedded in its skin like marvelous capillaries, ready to take him, the dark speck of foreign matter, anywhere or everywhere-heart, liver, lights, brain.

Yes, a trike, grey and silver, with an odd black hobby horses head set between the handlebars.

Suddenly, crazily, be saw Arnie at four, astride a red trike he and Regina had gotten at a rummage sale (Arnie at four had called them 'Momma's rubbage sales').

An old trike, rusting and overturned, hid in that long grass, one wheel sticking up at an angle.