tricycle

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/

• Audio (CA)

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• Audio (US)

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

Noun

tricycle (plural tricycles)

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

   Synonym: trike

2. (Philippines) An autorickshaw; A motorized cycle rickshaw

   Synonym: (cycle rickshaw) pedicab

Derived terms

• tricycle gear

Translations

cycle with three wheels

Albanian: triçikël (sq) f Asturian: triciclu m Breton: teirrodeg m Bulgarian: триколка f (trikolka) 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) 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) Min Nan: 三輪車 (zh-min-nan), 三轮车 (saⁿ-lián-chhia) 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 (さんりんしゃ, sanrinsha), (trike) トライク (ja) (toraiku) Khmer: ត្រីចក្រយាន (trəycakkrɑyiən) Korean: 세발자전거 (sebaljajeon'geo), 삼륜차 (ko) (samnyuncha) Latin: tricyclus ?, triicyclettus ? Latvian: tricikls m Lithuanian: triratis m, triratukas m (small) Maltese: triċiklu m Manx: tree-queeyllagh m Norman: trais-reues m (Jersey) Norwegian: trehjulssykkel (no) m Occitan: tricicle m Plautdietsch: Dreeroda m Polish: trycykl m Portuguese: triciclo m Romanian: triciclu (ro) m Russian: трёхколёсный 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 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.

   The child tricycled around the driveway until dark.

   Synonym: trike

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French

Etymology

tri- +‎ cycle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.sikl/

• Audio

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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.