pushbike

pushbikenoun/ˈpʊʃbaɪk/

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  informalA pedal bicycle, as distinguished from a motorized bicycle.

  • 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.

pushbikeverb/ˈpʊʃbaɪk/

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  informalTo travel by pushbike.

  • 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).