1 a bicycle or motorcycle:
We went for a cycle ride on Sunday. * a cycle route / track
seealsoBIKE
2 the fact of a series of events being repeated many times, always in the same order:
the cycle of the seasons * They could not break the cycle of harvest failure, food shortage, price increase and misery.
seealsoLIFECYCLE
3 a complete set or series, for example of movements in a machine:
eight cycles per second * the rinse cycle (= in a washing machine)
verb [V] [usually +adv./prep.] (especially BrE) to ride a bicycle; to travel by bicycle:
I usually cycle home through the park.
compareBICYCLE, BIKE
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