bicycle helmet

English

Cyclist wearing a bicycle helmet.

Noun

bicycle helmet (plural bicycle helmets)

1. A helmet intended to be worn while riding a bicycle.
   • 1989 (Jul), Dennis Coello, "Lock Up Your Bike", Boys' Life, page 8

     Make locking up your bike as routine as strapping on a bicycle helmet.

   • 2004, World Health Organization, World Report On Road Traffic Injury Prevention, page 136:

     Mandatory bicycle helmet laws introduced in New Zealand in 1994 also resulted in large increases in helmet use, and reductions in the number of head injuries […]

Synonyms

• (helmet): bike helmet

Translations

helmet worn while riding a bicycle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自行車頭盔／自行车头盔 (zìxíngchē tóukuī)

• Danish: cykelhjelm (da) c
• Dutch: fietshelm (nl) m
• Finnish: pyöräilykypärä (fi), pyöräkypärä
• French: casque de vélo m, casque vélo m
• Icelandic: hjólahjálmur m
• Russian: велосипе́дный шлем m (velosipédnyj šlem), велошле́м m (velošlém)
• Spanish: casco de ciclismo m
• Swedish: cykelhjälm (sv) c
• Turkish: bisiklet kaskı

See also

• bicycle helmet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia