pushbike

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pushbike

  • /ˈpʊʃbaɪk/ UK
  • /ˈpʊʃˌbaɪk/ US

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The noun is derived from push + bike. The verb is derived from the noun.

noun pushbikes · push bike · push-bike

  1. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal A pedal bicycle, as distinguished from a motorized bicycle. In England I learned to ride what the Australians call a push-bike, and spent many week-end leaves, and one four days' leave, riding in the South of England and Wales. [...] Today, I wished the push-bike was in its old place—especially when three boys sailed past on push-bikes and offered to give me

    Similar: push bicycle, push-cycle, pushie

verb pushbikes · pushbiking · pushbiked · push bike · push-bike

  1. Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal, intransitive To travel by pushbike. It makes me miserable when I think of the number of poor surveyors still push-biking their daily round.

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noun pedal bicycle, as distinguished from a motorized bicycle

Españolbicicleta, cicla
Italianobici, bicicletta

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"pushbike." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pushbike. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pushbike. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pushbike

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"pushbike." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pushbike.

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@misc{pushbike_2026,
  title = {pushbike},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pushbike},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}