motorcycle

1. 1.

   ride a motorcycle

   Synonymsmotorbikecycle

   Broaderride

Other forms of motorcycle

plural

motorcycles·

past tense

motorcycled·

present participle

motorcycling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about motorcycle

What does motorcycle mean?

motorcycle means "a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in motorcycle?

motorcycle has 4 syllables: mo-tor-cy-cle. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/.

What is another word for motorcycle?

Close synonyms include bike, motorbike, cycle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is motorcycle a common word?

motorcycle is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with motorcycle?

3 words rhyme with motorcycle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.