cycling

The activity of riding a bicycle for travel, exercise, or enjoyment.

• I enjoy cycling.
• We went cycling along the river yesterday.
• Cycling to work keeps me fit and saves money.

Similar words: bicycling, bike riding

Common phrases: go cycling, cycling holiday, cycling to work, enjoy cycling

The sport of racing on bicycles.

• He watches cycling on television.
• She won a gold medal in track cycling.
• Professional cycling teams train together before the racing season.

Similar words: bicycle racing, cycle racing

Common phrases: professional cycling, competitive cycling, cycling championship

A process in which the same actions or changes happen again and again in an order.

• Frequent cycling can wear out the pump.
• The study examines the cycling of carbon through forests.
• Repeated heating and cooling caused thermal cycling of the metal.

How to use it: cycling of something (The diagram shows the cycling of nutrients through the soil.)

Similar words: cyclic process

Common phrases: nutrient cycling, thermal cycling, cycling of something

Going through the same series of movements or changes again and again.

• The cycling pump switches on repeatedly.
• Cycling cells pass through repeated stages of growth and division.
• The engineer checked the cycling mechanism for signs of wear.

Similar words: cyclic, cyclical

Common phrases: cycling cells, cycling system, cycling mechanism