I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a horse/boat/bike etc race
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It’s legal to gamble on horse races.
dirt bike
exercise bike
mountain bike
quad bike
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
racing
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Surtees started racing bikes in 1950 and had his first win at Brands Hatch on a Vincent in 1951 when only 17.
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I had a go on Nigel's racing bike .
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He showed the children his famed high-tech £17,500 Lotus prototype track racing bike and answered a barrage of questions.
■ NOUN
dirt
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She also writes her own motorcycle column, Purr, and loves riding dirt bikes .
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Duhon enjoys speeding across the hard-packed sand on his dirt bike , almost challenging the dry lake to best him.
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He rode an old dirt bike and mumbled when he talked.
exercise
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We had tried cycling, skipping and jogging and we both had an exercise bike in the spare room.
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You can buy weights to use at home. Exercise bikes and rowing machines are becoming more popular.
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Twenty minutes on an exercise bike can take anything up to a year of ordinary time.
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She's bought an exercise bike to keep in shape.
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O'Neill Cycles also hires bikes and stocks a range of exercise bikes.
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At the beginning of my illness I was on the exercise bike every day, desperate to lose weight.
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At Dundee High Street Branch they decided the most profitable way forward on an exercise bike .
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A host of countermeasures have been devised and a few tried, such as exercise bikes and treadmills to which crew members are strapped.
motor
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I've been back loads of times and I keep seeing this man on a motor bike .
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But for some reason I can not remember, it was impossible to get permission to ship the motor bike .
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Unfortunately he was hit by a motor bike .
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The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.
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Others roared over the sands in newly-designed Land Rovers, on revolutionary dune buggies and motor bikes .
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From a safe distance he saw him rev up a motor bike and ride away.
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It turned out that Dana had simply left his old motor bike on the quayside before embarking on the ship.
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Your second-hand motor bike was always breaking down.
mountain
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The youths, aged about 15, dressed in brightly shell suits were riding mountain bikes .
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It is working with local bicycle manufacturers in hopes of stocking each house with two mountain bikes .
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I quickly found that mountain bikes don't particularly spare you the bumps.
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Beaty recalls one customer shopping for a package deal: a mountain bike and a sedan.
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They also robbed two schoolboys of their £250 mountain bikes .
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Horses, mountain bikes , and especially feet work well here.
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I have regularly competed in orienteering style mountain bike races, in which you decide your own route.
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A man completed all the Munros with a mountain bike .
path
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He walked her to the bike path , then all the way back to our house.
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Hit the jogging trails or the bike paths .
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To accomplish this, the Coalition recommends more, and better, marked bike paths , in particular along the L.A.
quad
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A terrier man drives his quad bike into a protestor, knocking him to the ground.
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The driver of the quad bike was Michael Smith, an employee of the Bicester Hunt.
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Teams competed on Jet skis, go-karts, quad bikes , aqua sausages and an assault course.
race
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Swingarms made from the tough, light material are already found on some state-of-the-art race bikes .
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The most obvious addition is the carbon-fibre body-work, painted in the colours of McWilliams' race bike .
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Tubing on the race bike frame appears slimmer than the road machines.
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The rear suspension linkage on this race bike appears to operate a shock that lies horizontally under the engine.
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Even so it was just great to get back on a road race bike again in February.
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On the race bikes , we use engine oil pressure to operate the gearchange.
ride
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Definitely the place to go after a good bike ride .
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Arrangements are made, other kids plan on joining them, and excitedly they organize a group bike ride for that evening.
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It was a nine mile bike ride but it was worth it.
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We had plenty of time to take a bike ride or walk after dinner, before it got dark.
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Ten tokens meant a bike ride round the park with one of his parents.
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Ramsey, who grew up in a quirky Pennsylvania family, went for a long bike ride in August 1968.
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My parents encouraged me to jump rope, bike ride , play kick-the-can and tetherball.
road
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U.S. sources say the Basic Racer will retail for $ 10,000 there-the same price as the road bike .
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Money saved by not fitting the parts road bikes require has been spent on the race mods.
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However, Dymag, which is based in Chippenham, Wilts, has pioneered the concept for road bikes .
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The bike is being used as a test bed to develop technology for road bikes.
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The challenge is now translating that reaction into road bike sales.
shop
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Cycling London's most up-to-date professional bike shop is a workers' co-operative.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
car/bike/greyhound etc racing
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As a boy you were so butch it hurt. Bike racing champ, marble wizard.
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Home of County cricket, League football and a greyhound racing stadium.
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Mosley's vision of cars and car racing in the next century would matter in this ecology-conscious age worried by recession.
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Sporting events such as car racing give me a headache.
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Stock car racing , they say, is family-oriented.
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Stock car racing , though, is old-fashioned.
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The move would not interfere with greyhound racing and would leave the old Plough Lane football ground available for redevelopment.
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They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The kids are out riding their bikes in the street.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police spokesman added that the businessman on whose premises the bikes were found was helping with their enquiries.
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Gina ran her bike over his foot viciously as she went out through the narrow hall.
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He's published a report suggesting new restrictions on bikes, even though he's a rider himself.
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Husqvarna reckons the bikes could even be used as daily transport.
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Our Shenstone sources say the bike cost £8,000 to produce.
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The idea is that the bike is race-ready straight from the crate.
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Unfortunately he was hit by a motor bike .
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When I first came to the region I had thoughts of using a bike for a lot of short travelling.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I would bike to the tea shop in the High Street and see what blends they had.
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The more people bike , the more biking is appreciated.