bicyclable

English

Alternative forms

• bicycleable

Etymology

From bicycle +‎ -able.

Adjective

bicyclable (comparative more bicyclable, superlative most bicyclable)

1. Synonym of bikable
   • 1924, Frank Savile, The High Grass Trail: Being the Difficulties and Diversions of Two Trekking and Shooting for Sustenance in Dense Bush Across British Central Africa, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, […], page 203:

     The path from the Luangwa is quite bicyclable, and I did not think he would postpone his departure into the heat of the day.

   • 1964, The Sarawak Museum Journal, page 382:

     Only to the north-east can a man travel by land, but in this direction he can follow a narrow but bicyclable path to various villages under the Buntal aegis — Sungei Lumut, Telok Nipah, and Sungei Ja’ong Samin — from the last, the path leads on, no longer passable on wheel, to the house of Mr. Lee Tek Huat the retired headmaster of St. Thomas’s School, over tributaries to the archaeologically rich Sungei Ja’ong, ultimately to Santubong.

   • 1986, Punch, page 48, column 1:

     Sally Taylor and friends did, and produced Grape Expeditions in France (Springfield Books, £5.95) an introduction to the “bicyclable wine regions of France”.

   • 2006, Jamie Jensen, Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America’s Two-Lane Highways, Avalon Travel Publishing, →ISBN, page 273:

     Between Port Gibson and Natchez, sights along this short (and eminently bicycleable) stretch include the prehistoric Emerald Mound, the second-largest prehistoric structure in the United States, which dates from around 1400 ad and offers a commanding view of the woodlands.

   • 2008, Theodore John Buehler, Fifty Years of Bicycle Policy in Davis, California, page 148:

     The Childs and Lotts insisted that nearly all streets have bike lanes, making the city universally bicycleable.

   • 2018, Selima Sultana, Hyojin Kim, Nastaran Pourebrahim, Firoozeh Karimi, “Geographical Assessment of Low-Carbon Transportation Modes: A Case Study from a Commuter University”, in Miltiadis D. Lytras, Anna Visvizi, editors, Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Village Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being and Happiness, article reprinted from Sustainability […], MDPI, published 2020, →ISBN, section “Conceptual Framework”, subsection “Barriers Preventing People from LCT”, subsubsection “Distance, Time, and Space: Real vs. Perceived”, page 277:

     Local areas congested by traffic and excessive parking create a more negative perception of the neighborhood among residents as either walkable or bicycleable [28].