[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who rides a cycle or practises cycling.
1882. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 Sept., 3/2. The cyclists of London.
1887. Times, 9 April, 5/4. I passed a group of Lieutenant-Colonel Savile’s military cyclists.
attrib. 1884. C. Dickens, jun. Dict. Lond., 37/2. The Cyclist Touring Club.
1887. Times, 8 April, 4/1. There will be an extensive reconnoissance carried out by the Cyclist Corps to the north-east of Canterbury.
2. One who reckons by a cycle or cycles; one who recognizes cycles in the course of phenomena, etc.
Hence Cyclistic a.
1882. Bazaar, Exch. & Mart, 15 Feb., 175. Readers with cyclistic tendencies.
