[f. prec.] To ride on a bicycle.
1869. [cf. BICYCLING].
1883. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., April, 692/2. Many enterprising souls, with lots of time to spare, would have walked, or bicycled, or canoed, or have ‘trekked.’
Hence Bicycler, Bicyclian, Bicycling.
1869. Latest News, 5 Sept., 15 (paragraph heading), Bicycling.
1876. B. Richardson, in Good Wds., 716. Rowing, or gymnastics, or bicycling.
1880. Scribn. Mag., Feb., 497. Bicyclers sped along its shore.
1880. J. G. Dalton, Lyra Bicyclica. Bicyclian bards.
1884. H. C. Bunner, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 304/2. If you wish to be a bicycler … you may join the band of wheelmen, who are forbidden to travel in the mazy ways of Central Park.
