bike

Meaning

Noun

1. Clipping of bicycle.
2. Clipping of motorbike.
3. (slang) Ellipsis of village bike.

Verb

1. To ride a bike.
2. To travel by bike.
3. To transport by bicycle.

Synonyms

bicycle

🚲

cycle

motorcycle

🏍️

motorbike

wheel

🛞

pushbike

velocipede

hive

pedal

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

castor

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comb

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

herd

honeycomb

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

🪢

leash

minibike

mob

murder

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

army

pounce

pride

raft

rookery

rout

school

🏫

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

sounder

span

string

🪢

stud

swarm

team

tiding

tittering

train

🚋

tribe

trip

troop

trundle

wedge

harras

clowder

motor-bike

motor-cycle

push-bike

ride a bicycle

ride a bike

murmuration

hirsel

cete

pod

ascension

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

beehive

bevy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baɪk/

Etymology

From bicycle, by shortening, and possibly alteration. Attested from 1882.
One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle is parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that bicycle is shortened to bic(ycle), and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying underspecified [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in bicycle but retained as [k] in bike; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).