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Definition of Tricycle

1. Noun. A vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals.

Definition of Tricycle

1. n. A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.

Definition of Tricycle

1. Noun. A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children. ¹

2. Verb. To ride a tricycle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tricycle

1. a vehicle having three wheels [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tricycle

Literary usage of Tricycle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1886)
"Such exhilaration is there in a good tricycle " coast " downhill! ... If it were n't for the sand," said Charley as she pushes her tricycle before her, ..."

2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1887)
"But although cycling is an aid to touring, the tricycle serves a much more useful purpose as a means of recreation. Daily exercise of some sort is ..."

3. Training the Boy by William Arch McKeever (1913)
"CHAPTER VIII PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS — Continued THE tricycle AT three years of age the boy will be old enough to learn to ride a tricycle and may learn much ..."

4. Cycling by William Coutts Keppel Albemarle, George Lacy Hillier (1887)
"tricycle. the most convenient method of mounting and dismounting is by stepping ... In its details the direct steering tricycle pretty closely resembled the ..."

5. Outing; Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction by Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Caspar Whitney, Albert Britt (1884)
"Not that I did not recognize a field of usefulness for the tricycle, but I was perfectly ... Now I tried it again ; the drag was gone ; the tricycle ..."

6. Bicycles & Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their Design and by Archibald Sharp (1896)
"'Olympia' tricycle is shown at ... In some of the earlier patterns of this tricycle made by Marriott & o, o oz FIG. ..."

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