tandem
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈtændəm/
:
tándem
- Colbert rides by happily on a tandem bike with a lovely woman on the back.
It's a beautiful day to ride a tandem across the USA.
- It's a beautiful day to ride a tandem across the USA.
- We're splitting a, you know, we're doing a tandem bike.
Examples
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It's a beautiful day to ride a tandem across the USA.
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Let's rent a tandem bicycle, and ride out to the country.
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We see some footage of Molly on a tandem bike riding around on a path in a grassy foresty area.
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I'm gonna go stay with Denise and Barry, and you and your bud Sydney can hang out and beat up Lou Ferrigno and go to Rush concerts and ride a tandem bicycle down the Venice Boardwalk for all I care.
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We decided to take the tandem bicycle for a ride along the beach promenade.
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He struggled to balance while pedaling the tandem with his friend in front.
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Riding a tandem allows two people to enjoy cycling together at the same time.
Synonyms
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3.5
A bicycle with two seats and two sets of pedals for two riders
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2.8
A vehicle with two seats for two people who pedal while sitting one behind the other
Idioms
Compounds
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2.8
A vehicle with two seats for two people who pedal while sitting one behind the other
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tandem comes from the Latin word tandem, which meant 'at length' or 'finally'. In English it came to mean things in a row, so a tandem bicycle has two seats and pedals 'one behind the other'.