handcycle

English

Handcycle tricycle

Etymology

From hand +‎ cycle.

Noun

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 The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

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

2. A mechanical exercise equipment similar to an exercise bicycle but with hand-operated pedals, used especially by seniors or people with disabilities for upper-body exercise.

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.