handcycle

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English

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Handcycle tricycle

Etymology

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From hand +‎ cycle.

Noun

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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.

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Verb

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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.