pedalo

plural pedalos · plural pedaloes · alternative pédalo

1. UKnauticalA small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.

   On the other hand: I’m sorry the sculpture hurt your feelings. But it’s just art. It can’t harm you. You don’t have to like it – not at all – but it’s going to be gone in a month or so, and you can still use the pedalos while it’s there.

   2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian

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   It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

   2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139

   Synonyms: pedalboat, paddleboat