handcycle

plural handcycles

1. A land vehicle resembling a bicycle or tricycle but powered by the arms rather than the legs.

   Metzdorf finished the New York City Marathon and an Army Ten-Miler at Fort Bragg using a handcycle.

   2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “Marathons Put Military in a Different Light”, in New York Times

2. A mechanical exercise equipment similar to an exercise bicycle but with hand-operated pedals, used especially by seniors or people with disabilities for upper-body exercise.

present singular third person handcycles · participle present handcycling · participle past handcycled · past handcycled

1. ambitransitiveTo travel or traverse on a handcycle.