motorbike

plural motorbikes

1. informalA motorcycle.

   Jumping on the Metro and then a local train, we headed out to National Central University at Jhongli, where I had been invited to take a look at a motorbike powered by compressed air.

   2009, Charley Boorman, “Betel Nuts and Beauties”, in Jeff Gulvin, editor, Right to the Edge : Sydney to Tokyo By Any Means, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 260

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   Driving fuel-efficient vehicles and using motorbikes when possible to replace or supplement vehicles are two of the ways Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees are attempting to become less fuelish and to lower transportation costs.

   1980, Montana Outdoors - Volume 11, page 8

   Synonyms: moto

2. USA small and light motorcycle.

present singular third person motorbikes · participle present motorbiking · participle past motorbiked · past motorbiked

1. To ride a motorbike; to travel by motorbike.

   We motorbiked all over the US that summer.

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   Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.

   2024 June 16, Senay Boztas, “‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise”, in The Guardian