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exercise bike

exercise bike

4 2.9
A machine like a bicycle that you ride indoors to keep fit
  • noun
  • /ˈɛksərˌsaɪz baɪk/
translation icon : bicicleta estática
  • Pancho got off the weight machine and went to the exercise bike.
  • ride an exercise bike
  • pedaling on an exercise bike
  • minutes on the exercise bike

Examples

  • My dad rode his stationary exercise bike in baggy Lands' End boxer shorts, forever ruining the basement for me.

    Blog text (8)

  • There's an exercise bike that we never use.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • I bought an exercise bike at Sports Authority for what their web price said it should cost.

    Blog text (28)

  • Tonight I started back on the exercise bike; I only made it for 8 minutes, but it is a start.

    Blog text (27)

  • So I bought an exercise bike for the apartment.

    Blog text (9)

  • Sharon is at her computer, Walter at his exercise bike.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I used a recumbent exercise bike, which took the pressure off my feet and back.

    Blog text (3)

  • Safety Max Gama spent most of spring practices on an exercise bike and eventually chose not to return.

    Blog text (2)

  • Back in Indiana, he had ridden his bike fifty miles a week during the warm months and kept up on the exercise bike in the winter, but he could do that because he was keeping an academic schedule, which gave him plenty of free daylight hours.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • After a long day at work, she enjoys unwinding by pedaling on her exercise bike while watching her favorite TV shows.

Synonyms

exercycle
vsexercise bike
  • US
3 7.9

A machine like a bicycle that you pedal for exercise while staying in one place

is the general descriptive name for the same kind of stationary machine

How Comfortable

recumbent
1 7.9
exercise bike
4 2.9

Surface Forms

exercise bike singular
exercise bikes plural

Morphology

exercise + bike

The meaning is directly and compositionally built from 'exercise' (physical training) + 'bike' (bicycle): it denotes a bicycle-like device used for exercise. This noun compound follows a common English compounding pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Exercise bike comes from the simple idea of a bike whose wheels are fixed so you can exercise while it stays in one place. That's why it means 'a device like a bicycle that stays in one place for indoor cycling'.