English
Etymology
By surface analysis, cycle + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: cy‧cling
Verb
cycling
- present participle and gerund of cycle
Noun
cycling (countable and uncountable, plural cyclings)
- (uncountable) The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)
- Synonym: biking
- (uncountable) The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles.
- Synonyms: cycle sport, race cycling
In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this.
- (countable) Any cyclic action or process
- Synonym: (rare) cyclism
Derived terms
Translations
the activity of riding bicycles
the sport of riding and racing bicycles
- Albanian: çiklizmit
- Armenian: հեծանվավազք (hy) (hecanvavazkʻ)
- 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 (cs) 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: Radsport (de) n, Radrennen (de) n
- Greek: ποδηλασία (el) f (podilasía)
- Hebrew: (please verify) אופנאות m (ofananut)
- Hungarian: kerékpározás (hu), kerékpársport (hu)
- Icelandic: hjólreiðum m, hjólaíþrótt f
- Indonesian: sepeda (id)
- Irish: rothaíocht m
- Italian: ciclismo (it) m
- Japanese: サイクリング (ja) (saikuringu), 自転車競技 (じてんしゃきょうぎ, jitensha kyōgi)
- Korean: 사이클링 (saikeulling)
- Latin: cursu m
- Latvian: riteņbraukšana f
- Lithuanian: dviračių sportas 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: велосипе́дный спорт m (velosipédnyj sport), велоспо́рт (ru) m (velospórt)
- Scottish Gaelic: rothaidheachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бициклѝзам m
- Roman: biciklìzam (sh) m
- Slovene: kolesarstvo (sl) n
- Spanish: ciclismo (es) m
- Swahili: baiskeli (sw)
- Swedish: cykling (sv) c, cykelsport (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagbibisikleta
- Tajik: дучархаронӣ (dučarxaroni)
- Turkish: bisiklet (tr), bisiklet sporu
- Vietnamese: đi xe đạp
- Welsh: beicio (cy) m
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Adjective
cycling (not comparable)
- That undergoes a cyclic motion or process.
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