handcycle

English

Handcycle tricycle

Etymology

hand +‎ cycle

Noun

handcycle (plural handcycles)

1. A land vehicle resembling a bicycle or tricycle but powered by the arms rather than the legs.
   • 2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “Marathons Put Military in a Different Light”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Metzdorf finished the New York City Marathon and an Army Ten-Miler at Fort Bragg using a handcycle.

Synonyms

• handbike

Derived terms

• handcycling
• handcyclist

Verb

handcycle (third-person singular simple present handcycles, present participle handcycling, simple past and past participle handcycled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To travel or traverse on a handcycle.