Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bike
Participle: biked
Gerund: biking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bike |
| you | bike |
| he;she;it | bikes |
| we | bike |
| you | bike |
| they | bike |
Perfect
| I | have biked |
| you | have biked |
| he;she;it | has biked |
| we | have biked |
| you | have biked |
| they | have biked |
Past
| I | biked |
| you | biked |
| he;she;it | biked |
| we | biked |
| you | biked |
| they | biked |
Pluperfect
| I | had biked |
| you | had biked |
| he;she;it | had biked |
| we | had biked |
| you | had biked |
| they | had biked |
Future
| I | will bike |
| you | will bike |
| he;she;it | will bike |
| we | will bike |
| you | will bike |
| they | will bike |
Future Perfect
| I | will have biked |
| you | will have biked |
| he;she;it | will have biked |
| we | will have biked |
| you | will have biked |
| they | will have biked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bike |
| you | bike |
| he;she;it | bike |
| we | bike |
| you | bike |
| they | bike |
Perfect
| I | have biked |
| you | have biked |
| he;she;it | have biked |
| we | have biked |
| you | have biked |
| they | have biked |
Imperfect
| I | biked |
| you | biked |
| he;she;it | biked |
| we | biked |
| you | biked |
| they | biked |
Pluperfect
| I | had biked |
| you | had biked |
| he;she;it | had biked |
| we | had biked |
| you | had biked |
| they | had biked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bike |
| you | would bike |
| he;she;it | would bike |
| we | would bike |
| you | would bike |
| they | would bike |
Perfect
| I | would have biked |
| you | would have biked |
| he;she;it | would have biked |
| we | would have biked |
| you | would have biked |
| they | would have biked |
Imperative
| you | bike |
| we | Let's bike |
| you | bike |
Verbs conjugated like 'bike'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bike'
bake,
bide,
bile,
bite,
bive,
boke,
dike,
fike,
hike,
kike,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwís
4. Proto-Italic *dwis
5. Old Latin duis
6. Latin bisder.
7. French bi-
8. Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
9. Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
10. Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
11. Late Latin cyclusder.
12. Middle French
13. French cycle
14. French bicyclebor.
15. English bicycleclip.
16. English bike
17. Clipping of bicycle. First attested in 1882.
18. One explanation for the form with /k/ is that bicycle was parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that it was parsed to bic(ycle) but since speakers are aware of a general /k/~/s/ alternation (as in electric ~ electricity etc.), the softened /s/ was restored to a default /k/ when the “ending” -ycle was dropped. Similar cases are merc /mɜɹk/, spec /spɛk/ for mercenary, specify. It seems unlikely, however, that this process is purely phonological and not at least partially based on the spelling ⟨c⟩.
Verbs referencing "bike"
French
biker.
Sample Sentences
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I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
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In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted. [1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3:]
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It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
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He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […] [2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, page 32:]
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I biked them the letters.
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Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire. [2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:]