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.

Concepts

bike

bicycle

cycle

motorcycle

motorbike

wheel

pedal

pushbike

velocipede

hive

push-bike

motor-bike

motor-cycle

ride a bicycle

castor

trundle

ride a bike

beehive

comb

honeycomb

army

ascension

band

barrel

barren

battery

bed

bevy

boar

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

cete

chowder

circle

clamour

cloud

clowder

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

field

flight

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

harras

herd

hirsel

intrigue

kennel

kindle

knot

leash

mob

murder

murmuration

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

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

wedge

minibike

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]).