Etymology
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From French tricycle.
Pronunciation
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪsɪkəl/, /ˈtɹaɪˌsɪkəl/
- Rhymes: -aɪsɪkəl
- Hyphenation: tri‧cy‧cle
tricycle (plural tricycles)
- A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children.
- Synonym: trike
- (Philippines) An autorickshaw; A motorized cycle rickshaw
- Synonym: (cycle rickshaw) pedicab
Derived terms
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Translations
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cycle with three wheels
- Albanian: triçikël (sq) f
- Asturian: triciclu m
- Breton: teirrodeg m
- Bulgarian: трико́лка f (trikólka)
- Catalan: tricicle (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 三輪車/三轮车 (saam1 leon4 ce1)
- Hakka: 三輪車/三轮车 (sâm-lin-chhâ, sâm-lìn-chhâ, sâm-lien-chhâ)
- Hokkien: 三輪車/三轮车 (zh-min-nan) (saⁿ-lián-chhia)
- Mandarin: 三輪車/三轮车 (zh) (sānlúnchē), 三輪腳踏車/三轮脚踏车 (sānlún jiǎotàchē) (Taiwan), 三輪兒/三轮儿 (zh) (sānlúnr)
- Cornish: teyrros f
- Czech: trojkolka f
- Dutch: driewieler (nl) m
- Estonian: kolmerattaline
- Finnish: kolmipyörä (fi)
- French: tricycle (fr) m
- Galician: triciclo (gl) m
- German: Dreirad (de) n
- Greek: τρίκυκλο (el) n (tríkyklo)
- Hebrew: תְּלַת אוֹפַן (he) m (t'lát-ófan)
- Hungarian: tricikli (hu)
- Ido: triciklo (io)
- Indonesian: roda tiga (id)
- Irish: trírothach m
- Italian: triciclo (it) m, (please verify) tricicletto m
- Japanese: 三輪車 (ja) (さんりんしゃ, sanrinsha), (trike) トライク (ja) (toraiku)
- Khmer: ត្រីចក្រយាន (trəycakkrɑyiən)
- Korean: 세발자전거 (sebaljajeon'geo), 삼륜차(三輪車) (ko) (samnyuncha)
- Latin: tricyclus ?, triicyclettus ?
- Latvian: tricikls m
- Lithuanian: triratis m, triratukas m (small)
- Macedonian: три́колка f (tríkolka), три́цикл m (trícikl)
- Maltese: triċiklu m
- Manx: tree-queeyllagh m
- Norman: trais-reues m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: trehjulssykkel (no) m
- Occitan: tricicle m
- Plautdietsch: Dreeroda m
- Polish: trycykl m
- Portuguese: triciclo m
- Romanian: triciclu (ro) m
- Russian: трёхколё́сный велосипе́д m (trjoxkoljósnyj velosipéd), три́цикл (ru) m (trícikl), (trike) трайк (ru) m (trajk)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трицѝкл m
- Roman: tricìkl (sh) f, trotočak m, trokolka f
- Sicilian: tricìculu m
- Slovak: trojkolka f
- Spanish: triciclo (es) m
- Swedish: trehjuling (sv) c
- Tagalog: traysikel f, trisiklo
- Thai: สามล้อ (th) (sǎam-lɔ́ɔ)
- Turkish: triportör (tr)
- Vietnamese: xe ba bánh
- Volapük: cilasaikul, (older term) kilaluib
- Welsh: treisicl m, treisigl m
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tricycle (third-person singular simple present tricycles, present participle tricycling, simple past and past participle tricycled)
- To ride a tricycle.
- Synonym: trike
The child tricycled around the driveway until dark.