bicycles

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of bicycle.

   Thousands of bicycles fill the city streets during the morning rush.

   Modern bicycles often use lightweight aluminum frames.

   Note

   A regular plural that carries every meaning of the noun with it: two-wheelers in a bike rack, the traveling blocks loggers run along a skidding cable, the best hands in lowball. In Australia, Britain and New Zealand it can mean motorbikes too. Stretching it to tricycles and other pedal vehicles is sometimes done but frowned on. The same spelling also serves the verb in "she bicycles".

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of bicycle.

   She bicycles across town instead of taking the bus.

   My neighbor bicycles to the market every morning.

   Note

   A verb that works with or without an object: she bicycles to work, or he bicycles the coast road on weekends. Broadcasting once had its own use, now historical. A station that bicycles a recorded program physically ships the recording to another broadcaster instead of transmitting it. Unlike the plural noun, this form agrees with a single subject and never follows a determiner.

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