Definitions for cycling

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cycling cy·cling

Spelling: [sahy-kling]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ klɪŋ/

Cycling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in cycling (ccgilny).

Definitions for cycling

noun

1. the act or sport of riding or traveling by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
2. Also called bicycle race, bicycle racing. Sports. a race on lightweight bicycles with low handlebars, conducted for specified distances or against time on a dirt or board track or over public roads between cities.
3. any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
4. a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.
5. any long period of years; age.
6. a bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
7. a group of poems, dramas, prose narratives, songs etc., about a central theme, figure, or the like:
8. Physics. a sequence of changing states that, upon completion, produces a final state identical to the original one. one of a succession of periodically recurring events. a complete alteration in which a phenomenon attains a maximum and minimum value, returning to a final value equal to the original one.
9. Mathematics. a permutation of a set of elements that leaves the original cyclic order of the elements unchanged.
10. Computers. the smallest interval of time required to complete an operation in a computer. a series of computer operations repeated as a unit.

verb (used without object)

1. to ride or travel by bicycle, motorcycle, tricycle, etc.
2. to move or revolve in cycles; pass through cycles.

Idioms

1. hit for the cycle, Baseball. (of one player) to hit a single, double, triple, and home run in one game.

Origin of cycling

First recorded in 1935-40; cycle + -ing¹

Examples for cycling

Given that Pippa is currently cycling across America, maybe they should have invited her.

Harry, met about 25 wounded soldiers hoping to compete in the wheelchair rugby, cycling and indoor rowing events.

He subsequently met with city officials, including Police Chief Tom Jackson, who is described as a “cycling enthusiast.”

The dangers of cycling arise principally from lack of judgment.

William, Kate and Harry are all big supports of British cycling.

On Monday afternoon Harris came round; he had a cycling paper in his hand.

Every experiment that every fool has thought of in connection with cycling you have tried.

This charging and discharging is often called "cycling" the battery.

Compared to European cycling, the major pro sports in the U.S. have been slow to get serious about drug testing.

Styópa is cycling to the station, the tutor has gone to town with papa.