tricycle

English

A child's tricycle.

An auto-rickshaw carrying a passenger in the Philippines. Locally these are called "tricycles".

Etymology

From French tricycle.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪsɪkəl/, /ˈtɹaɪˌsɪkəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪsɪkəl
• Hyphenation: tri‧cy‧cle

Noun

tricycle (plural tricycles)

2. A cycle with three wheels, powered by pedals and usually intended for young children.

   Synonym: trike

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 87:

     [S]o I rode home on my brand new tricycle to find the rest of the family parked in front of the box.

3. (Philippines) An autorickshaw; A motorized cycle rickshaw (usually a roofed motorcycle with sidecar, often available for hire in the manner of a taxi)

   Synonym: (cycle rickshaw) pedicab

Derived terms

• freight tricycle
• tricycle gear

Translations

cycle with three wheels

• Albanian: triçikël (sq) f
• Asturian: triciclu m
• Breton: teirrodeg m
• Bulgarian: трико́лка f (trikólka)
• Catalan: tricicle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 三輪車 / 三轮车 (saam¹ leon⁴ ce¹)

  Hakka: 三輪車 / 三轮车 (sâm-lin-chhâ, sâm-lìn-chhâ, sâm-lien-chhâ)

  Hokkien: 三輪車 / 三轮车 (zh-min-nan) (saⁿ-lián-chhia)

  Mandarin: 三輪車 / 三轮车 (zh) (sānlúnchē), 三輪腳踏車 / 三轮脚踏车 (sānlún jiǎotàchē) (Taiwan), 三輪兒 / 三轮儿 (zh) (sānlúnr)

• Cornish: teyrros f
• Czech: trojkolka f
• Dutch: driewieler (nl) m
• Estonian: kolmerattaline
• Finnish: kolmipyörä (fi)
• French: tricycle (fr) m
• Galician: triciclo (gl) m
• German: Dreirad (de) n
• Greek: τρίκυκλο (el) n (tríkyklo)
• Hebrew: תְּלַת אוֹפַן (he) m (t'lát-ófan)
• Hungarian: tricikli (hu)
• Ido: triciklo (io)
• Indonesian: roda tiga (id)
• Irish: trírothach m
• Italian: triciclo (it) m, ^{(please verify)} tricicletto m
• Japanese: 三輪車 (ja) (さんりんしゃ, sanrinsha), (trike) トライク (ja) (toraiku)
• Khmer: ត្រីចក្រយាន (trəycakkrɑyiən)
• Korean: 세발자전거 (sebaljajeon'geo), 삼륜차(三輪車) (ko) (samnyuncha)
• Latin: tricyclus ?, triicyclettus ?
• Latvian: tricikls m
• Lithuanian: triratis m, triratukas m (small)
• Macedonian: три́колка f (tríkolka), три́цикл m (trícikl)
• Maltese: triċiklu m
• Manx: tree-queeyllagh m
• Norman: trais-reues m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trehjulssykkel (no) m

• Occitan: tricicle m
• Plautdietsch: Dreeroda m
• Polish: trycykl m
• Portuguese: triciclo m
• Romanian: tricicletă (ro) f, triciclu (ro) n
• Russian: трёхколё́сный велосипе́д m (trjoxkoljósnyj velosipéd), три́цикл (ru) m (trícikl), (trike) трайк (ru) m (trajk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трицѝкл m

  Roman: tricìkl (sh) f, trotočak m, trokolka f

• Sicilian: tricìculu m
• Slovak: trojkolka f
• Spanish: triciclo (es) m, tricicleta f
• Swedish: trehjuling (sv) c
• Tagalog: traysikel f, trisiklo
• Thai: สามล้อ (th) (sǎam-lɔ́ɔ)
• Turkish: triportör (tr)
• Vietnamese: xe ba bánh
• Volapük: cilasaikul, (older term) kilaluib
• Welsh: treisicl m, treisigl m

Philippine rickshaw

• Tagalog: traysikel f, trisiklo

Verb

tricycle (third-person singular simple present tricycles, present participle tricycling, simple past and past participle tricycled)

1. To ride a tricycle.

   Synonym: trike

   The child tricycled around the driveway until dark.

French

Etymology

From tri- +‎ cycle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.sikl/

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Noun

tricycle m (plural tricycles)

1. tricycle

Further reading

• “tricycle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.