bicyclism
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bicyclism (uncountable)
- (dated) The art of riding a bicycle.
- 1879, The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated:
- Here we have the ninth number of the fourth volume of a journal devoted to the great and noble art of Bicyclism. A modern art, unknown utterly to our forefathers, it has sprung into existence with intense velocity […]
- 1882, Ward and Lock's home book, page 1041:
- One result of bicyclism is that many retired nooks and corners of our beautiful island are now more effectually explored than they ever were before; the grass-grown turnpike roads are no longer peopled only by farmers' manure-carts […]