trike

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Some also use a reflective slow-moving-vehicle sign and a red-flashing light to alert car drivers that a trike is on the road at about their bumper height.

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  1. noun Informal A tricycle.

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  • Taga stroller/trike is an awesome way to bring the kids along on your trips.
  • It's much harder to fall from an adult trike or four-wheel cycle. —  The Dastard
  • Not far away, someone pedals down a nearby roadway on an oversized tricycle; impossibly, he begins coasting uphill, his feet not moving as his trike carries him up a ninety-degree angle. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space
  • Schwartz said his family's trike - which he thinks is really cool - was built by George Bliss, who, as Villager readers may recall, also built the
  • This is one of the more unique bike designs you will find as it is a three-wheeler which is unlike a trike. —  Auto Motto
 

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