cycling

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, cycle +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: cy‧cling

Verb

cycling

1. present participle and gerund of cycle

Noun

cycling (countable and uncountable, plural cyclings)

1. (uncountable) The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)

   Synonym: biking

2. (uncountable) The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles.

   Synonyms: cycle sport, race cycling

   In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this.

3. (countable) Any cyclic action or process

   Synonym: (rare) cyclism

Derived terms

• anticycling
• autocycling
• cycling shorts
• gravel cycling
• microcycling
• noncycling
• overcycling
• paracycling
• road cycling
• subcycling
• thermocycling
• track cycling

 

Translations

The activity of riding bicycles

• Arabic: رُكُوب اَلدَّرَاجَات m (rukūb ad-darājāt)
• Czech: cyklistika (cs) f
• Dutch: fietsen (nl)
• German: Radfahren (de) n, Fahrradfahren (de) n
• Japanese: 自転車利用 (saikuringu)
• Norman: pédal'lie f
• Russian: езда́ на велосипе́де f (jezdá na velosipéde), велоезда́ (ru) f (velojezdá),
• Tajik: дучархаронӣ (dučarxaroni)

The sport of riding and racing bicycles

• Albanian: çiklizmit
• Armenian: հեծանվավազք (hy) (hecanvavazkʻ)
• Asturian: ciclismu m
• Azerbaijani: bisiklet (az), bisikletle
• Basque: txirrindularitza
• Belarusian: веласпо́рт m (vjelaspórt)
• Catalan: ciclisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自行車運動／自行车运动 (zìxíngchē yùndòng)

• Czech: cyklistika (cs) f
• Danish: cykling (da) c
• Dutch: wielrennen (nl)
• Esperanto: biciklado
• Estonian: jalgrattasõit
• Finnish: pyöräily (fi), polkupyöräily (fi)
• French: cyclisme (fr)
• Galician: ciclismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ველო (velo)
• German: Radsport (de) n, Radrennen (de) n
• Greek: ποδηλασία (el) f (podilasía)
• Hebrew: אופנאות m (ofananut)
• Hungarian: kerékpározás (hu), kerékpársport (hu)
• Icelandic: hjólreiðum m, hjólaíþrótt f
• Indonesian: sepeda (id)
• Irish: rothaíocht m
• Italian: ciclismo (it) m
• Japanese: サイクリング (ja) (saikuringu), 自転車競技 (jitensha kyōgi)
• Korean: 사이클링 (saikeulling)
• Latin: cursu m
• Latvian: riteņbraukšana f
• Lithuanian: dviračių sportas m
• Macedonian: велосипеди́зам m (velosipedízam)
• Malay: berbasikal
• Nahuatl: ōmmalacapayīnaliztli n
• Norman: pédal'lie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sykling m or f

  Nynorsk: sykling f

• Polish: kolarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: ciclismo (pt) m
• Romanian: ciclism (ro) n
• Russian: велосипе́дный спорт m (velosipédnyj sport), велоспо́рт (ru) m (velospórt)
• Scottish Gaelic: rothaidheachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: biciklizam (sh) m
• Slovene: kolesarstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: ciclismo (es) m
• Swahili: baiskeli (sw)
• Swedish: cykling (sv) c, cykelsport (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagbibisikleta
• Tajik: дучархаронӣ (dučarxaroni)
• Turkish: bisiklet (tr)
• Vietnamese: đi xe đạp
• Welsh: beicio (cy) m

Adjective

cycling (not comparable)

1. That undergoes a cyclic motion or process.

Further reading

• cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia