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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

bicicleta de carretera

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bicicleta de carretera

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Road bike/ˈroʊd baɪk/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Entrena todos los días con su bicicleta de carretera."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A bicycle designed for traveling at high speed on paved roads, typically featuring drop handlebars, narrow high-pressure tires, and a lightweight frame.

    "He prefers riding his road bike on smooth suburban asphalt during the weekends."
  2. 2

    A category of bicycles optimized for endurance road cycling, racing, or fitness riding.

    "She purchased an endurance road bike to prepare for the long-distance charity ride."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'road', originating from Old English 'rād' meaning a riding or journey, and 'bike', a late 19th-century shortening of 'bicycle'. Together, the compound noun emerged in modern English to describe specialized bicycles designed for traveling at speed on paved roads.

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