Cycle ˈsaɪkl Noun Riding Home Hit Lorry Ride

• he was riding his cycle home when he was hit by a lorry.
• we went for a cycle ride on sunday.
• lots of people arrived in cars or on cycles.
• they completed their journey by cycle.

cycle

1. a bicycle or motorcycle
• SEE ALSO bike
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bike_2
• He was riding his cycle home when he was hit by a lorry.
• We went for a cycle ride on Sunday.
• Lots of people arrived in cars or on cycles.
• They completed their journey by cycle.
2. the fact of a series of events being repeated many times, always in the same order
• SEE ALSO carbon cycle
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/carbon-cycle
• Every business goes through cycles.
• the cycle of the seasons
• The argument is that reprisals simply perpetuate the cycle of violence.
• They could not break the cycle of harvest failure, food shortage, price increase and misery.
• Front runners generally establish themselves early in the election cycle.
• The percentage of companies being downgraded was typical for this point in the economic cycle.
• different phases of the cell cycle

Extra Examples

• Life is a natural cycle, just like the changing seasons.
• Male and female adults mate, the female lays eggs, and the cycle begins all over again.
• The European market is simply going through an economic cycle.
• The number of young produced per breeding cycle varies from species to species.
• This cycle of events continually repeats itself.
• To complete the cycle, oxygen is necessary.
• a diagram of the water cycle
• at this point in the cycle
• caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting
• part of the cycle of birth and death
• the 76-year solar cycle
• the annual cycle of church festivals
• women with irregular menstrual cycles
3. a complete set or series, for example of movements in a machine
• SEE ALSO song cycle
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/song-cycle
• eight cycles per second
• the rinse cycle (= in a washing machine)

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos ‘circle’.