Definitions

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  • noun a path for bicyclists located next to (alongside) a roadway

Etymologies

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From side + path.

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Examples

  • He says mostly whatever comes to mind some of which is entirely sensible then he takes a sidepath in some other direction if the whim hits him.

    On Rush Limbaugh And The Humane Society 2009

  • He says mostly whatever comes to mind some of which is entirely sensible then he takes a sidepath in some other direction if the whim hits him.

    On Rush Limbaugh And The Humane Society 2009

  • Martin Cunningham emerged from a sidepath, talking gravely.

    Ulysses 2003

  • A thick fog hung over the forest, so that they had to guess their way; but Claudet knew every turn and every sidepath, and thus he and his companion arrived by the most direct line at the rendezvous.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • They have scarce stepped upon the sidepath when the report of a pistol resounds through the air.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

  • Martin Cunningham emerged from a sidepath, talking gravely.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • More than halfway along the Mardyke Walk there is a sidepath leading down to a ferry across the Lee.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • Garney was a dissolute soldier who blew his head off, accidentally, his friends claimed, and he was buried on what was supposed to be his own land just north of Raften's, but it afterward proved to be part of the highway where a sidepath joined in, and in spite of its diggers the grave was at the _crossing of two roads_.

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • A thick fog hung over the forest, so that they had to guess their way; but Claudet knew every turn and every sidepath, and thus he and his companion arrived by the most direct line at the rendezvous.

    A Woodland Queen — Complete Andr�� Theuriet 1870

  • Plans to build a nearly one-mile walking and cycling sidepath along West Bloomfield Road received a big boost Monday whe ...

    HeraldTimesOnline.com 2010

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