cycling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/

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Verb

cycling

1. present participle of cycle

Noun

cycling (countable and uncountable, plural cyclings)

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

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

   Synonym: biking

2. (countable) Any cyclic action or process

   Synonym: cyclism (rare)

Translations

The sport of riding and racing bicycles

• Albanian: çiklizmit
• Arabic: رُكُوب اَلدَّرَاجَات‎ m (rukūb ad-darājāt)
• Armenian: Հեծանվավազք (Hecanvavazkʿ)
• 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 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: Radfahren (de) n
• Greek: ποδηλασία (el) f (podilasía)
• Hebrew: אופנאות‎ m (ofananut)
• Hungarian: kerékpározás (hu), kerékpársport
• Icelandic: hjólreiðum m
• Indonesian: sepeda (id)
• Interlingue: ciclisme
• Irish: rothaíocht m

• Italian: ciclismo (it) m
• Japanese: サイクリング (saikuringu), 自転車競技 (jitensha kyōgi)
• Korean: 사이클링 (saikeulling)
• Latin: cursu m
• Latvian: riteņbraukšana f
• Lithuanian: dviračiai 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: (activity) езда́ на велосипе́де f (jezdá na velosipéde), (sport) велосипе́дный спорт m (velosipédnyj sport)
• 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
• 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