fat bike

English

WOTD – 1 April 2021

Etymology

Fat bikes designed for use on sand (top) and snow (above).

From fat +‎ bike, from the fat tires such bicycles are equipped with, and their correspondingly wider frames needed to accommodate the width of the tires.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfætbaɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfætˌbaɪk/
• Hyphenation: fat‧bike

Noun

fat bike (plural fat bikes)

1. (cycling, winter sports) A bicycle equipped with larger than normal tyres and a wider frame to accommodate them, which provides better traction on off-road surfaces such as sand or snow.

Alternative forms

• fatbike

Translations

bicycle equipped with larger than normal tyres

• French: fat bike (fr), vélo hivernal, vélo sur neige (the latter two for snow use), vélo à pneus surdimensionnés (fr), VPS (fr), vélo à pneus ultralarges (fr)
• Russian: фэтбайк (ru) m (fɛtbajk), фатба́йк (ru) m (fatbájk)
• Ukrainian: фетбайк m (fetbajk)

See also

• skibike
• snowbike

Further reading

• fatbike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:fatbikes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “fat bike, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• bakfiet, fakebit

French

Riding on a fat bike.

Etymology

Anglicism (English fat bike).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fat bajk/

Noun

fat bike m (plural fat bikes)

1. (cycling, winter sports) fat bike

   Synonyms: vélo à pneus surdimensionnés (VPS), vélo hivernal, (the latter two for snow use) vélo sur neige

Alternative forms

• fatbike
• vélo fatbike, vélo fat bike