handcycle

English

Handcycle tricycle

Etymology

From hand +‎ cycle.

Noun

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Wikipedia

handcycle (plural handcycles)

1. A land vehicle resembling a bicycle or tricycle but powered by the arms rather than the legs.
   • 2007 May 27, The Associated Press, “Marathons Put Military in a Different Light”, in New York Times‎:

     Metzdorf finished the New York City Marathon and an Army Ten-Miler at Fort Bragg using a handcycle.

Synonyms

• handbike

Derived terms

• handcycling
• handcyclist

Verb

handcycle (third-person singular simple present handcycles, present participle handcycling, simple past and past participle handcycled)

1. (ambitransitive) To travel or traverse on a handcycle.