tricycle

tricycle [trahy-si-kuh l, -sik-uh l] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. a vehicle, especially one for children, having one large front wheel and two small rear wheels, propelled by foot pedals.
2. a velocipede with three wheels propelled by pedals or hand levers.
3. a three-wheeled motorcycle.

Origin of tricycle From French, dating back to 1820–30; see origin at tri-, cycle Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for tricycle Contemporary Examples of tricycle

A Jewish film festival has backed out of the Tricycle Theater after the venue refused to accept money from the Israeli government.

London Theater Halts Jewish Film Festival Over Israeli Government Money

Nico Hines

August 6, 2014

Historical Examples of tricycle

There is a fashion just now to call it dangerous and the tricycle safe.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884

Various

That’s why I like my tricycle so much, and think it such a useful thing.

Golden Moments

Anonymous

I’ll tell you one thing that makes me so glad about my tricycle.

Golden Moments

Anonymous

But Max, though he got off his tricycle, looked a bit worried.

In the Mist of the Mountains

Ethel Turner

He styled this tricycle his “engine,” and it was by no means the whole of his equipage.

Fantmas

Pierre Souvestre

British Dictionary definitions for tricycle tricycle noun

1. a three-wheeled cycle, esp one driven by pedals
2. a three-wheeler for invalids

verb

3. (intr) to ride a tricycle

Derived Formstricyclist, noun Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for tricycle n.

1828, “three-wheeled horse-drawn carriage,” from French tricycle (1827); see tri- + cycle (n.). The pedal-powered version is first attested 1868.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper