[f. prec. sb. Cf. Gr. κυκλεῖν to go round and round.]
1. intr. To move or revolve in cycles; to pass through cycles.
1842. Tennyson, Two Voices, 348. It may be that no life is found, Which only to one engine bound Falls off, but cycles always round.
1859. Darwin, Orig. Spec., xiv. 490. Whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity.
2. To ride a bicycle or tricycle, to travel by cycle.
1883. [see CYCLING vbl. sb.].
1891. Cycl. Tour. Club Gaz., Dec., 340. On landing at Dieppe [he] would cycle or train, according to the state of the weather.
Hence (sense 2) Cycling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1883. B. W. Richardson, Cycling, in Longm. Mag., Oct., 593. To the human family the art of cycling is the bestowal of a new faculty. Ibid., 595. The choicest representatives of cycling circles.
Cycle, obs. form of SHEKEL, SICKLE.
