push-bike
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of pushbike.
verb
Alternative form of pushbike.
Example Sentences
- "In England I learned to ride what the Australians call a push-bike, and spent many week-end leaves, and one four days' leave, riding in the South of England and Wales. [...] Today, I wished the push-bike was in its old place—especially when three boys sailed past on push-bikes and offered to give me some "gas.""
- "It wasn't long before Californian youngsters started turning out customised push-bikes, mimicking the grown-up motorbikes in the fast lane. The fad of bicycle polo spawned a push-bike with a big fat seat, which became a backyard classic."
- "It makes me miserable when I think of the number of poor surveyors still push-biking their daily round."
- "Dr. Smith is making a tour of the world "push-biking" from place to place, forwarding whatever he finds interesting along his travels."
- "Apart from a wireless-repair van parked a few yards off and a vicar's-wife type, energetically push-biking past in bright yellow oilskins, the streets were deserted."
- "It was cloudy, cool and misty as he [Thomas Edward Lawrence] push-biked up the long hill into Elsfield village."