pushbike
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The noun is derived from push + bike. The verb is derived from the noun.
Compound parts: push
bike
Inflected forms:
form: pushbikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: push bike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: push-bike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pushbikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pushbiking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pushbiked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pushbiked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: push bike
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: push-bike
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: push bike
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: push-bike
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pedal bicycle, as distinguished from a motorized bicycle.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: 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."
[W]e find that the police have only got a pushbike in the place of the horse. We are, therefore, retrogressing. A pushbike cannot be used very well on our roads, and it is practically useless. The hon. member for Prieska expressed the view that it would cost much more to provide motor vehicles in the place of horses, but I doubt it.
I ask the Minister for Transport whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that last year 120 pushbike riders were killed and more than 4,000 injured? Is it a fact that about 100,000 more pushbikes are coming on to the roads each year, increasing even further the possibility of accidents? Has it been estimated that there are over 2,000,000 pushbike riders in Australia, thousands of whom are under 12 years of age?
It was just like an old novel: an ornate iron gate was opened by a liveried janitor, looking askance at my rather derelict pushbike.
Section One of the Railway Trail is 1¾ miles long and is suitable for walking, push bikes (as bicycles are called), or mopeds. [...] Section Two is 2¼ mile in length and is suitable for push bikes and mopeds.
The town being so small, everybody rode pushbikes and there were pushbikes propped up everywhere. I've never seen anything like it! Next thing you know there were pushbikes going in all directions and blokes climbing up the verandah posts!
He looked around for a push bike. There was a red one hanging on the wall that looked like it might go.
[O]ne night, when my brother and I went to bed, he told me he was leaving that night, but he needed my pushbike because his one was old, ugly and broken. [...] In return for giving him my pushbike he promised to give me his miniature railway set.
gloss: To travel by pushbike.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
informal
intransitive
examples: It makes me miserable when I think of the number of poor surveyors still push-biking their daily round.
Recently two of us had to go into Makeni to collect copper for the men's December pay, and as walking would have taken at least two days, and for any degree of comfort four, we push biked along the bush track from camp to Kamabai, about six miles, and covered the remaining twenty odd miles by railway trolley (West African pump-car).
Dr. Smith is making a tour of the world "push-biking" from place to place, forwarding whatever he finds interesting along his travels.
First of all it was very early in the morning—it was about by this time between 4 and 6 a.m. everybody still asleep—so I went on and start push biking around the house till I decide that its not too early.
In South East Nigeria I knew him only slightly between 1923 and 1948; a self-effacing but self-sufficient figure pushbiking about the country in khaki shorts, white shirt and plimsolls, always purposeful, seldom interested in the whisky, gin, and bridge sessions that passed for evening society in bush stations.
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.
The other thing about the time he pushbiked from Hereford back home was that when he stripped off, his body underneath was black.
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