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cycling
Verb
  • present participle of cycle
Noun
  • The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles. uncountable
  • Any cyclic action or process countable
Adjective
  • That undergoes a cyclic motion or process
cycle
Noun
  • An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
  • A complete rotation of anything.
  • A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
  • The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
  • In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class. music
  • A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
  • A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
  • A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle; or, motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels, such as a motorbike, motorcycle, motorized tricycle, or motortrike.
  • A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game. baseball
  • A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed. graph theory
  • An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
  • An age; a long period of time.
  • An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
  • One entire round in a circle or a spire. botany
Verb
  • To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
  • To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
  • To turn power off and back on electronics
  • To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal ice hockey