mountain bike

1. 1.

   a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country

   Synonymsall-terrain bikeoff-roader

   Broaderbicycle

Questions about mountain bike

What does mountain bike mean?

mountain bike means "a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country".

What is another word for mountain bike?

Close synonyms include all-terrain bike, off-roader. 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 mountain bike a common word?

mountain bike is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.