cycling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: cy‧cling

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