MOTORCYCLEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• motor cycle, motor-cycle

語源

From motor +‎ cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/, [ˈmoʊɾɚˌsaɪkl̩]
• (dated) IPA: /ˈmoʊtɚsɪk(ə)l/
• ハイフネーション: mo‧tor‧cy‧cle

名詞

motorcycle (plural motorcycles)

1. An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
   • 1995 October, Steven Puchalski, “Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future?”, in Sci Fi Entertainment, page 36:

     Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.

   • 2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2022:

     That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets. Her husband, Francis Steegmuller, the critic, translator and biographer who died in 1994, had a bag snatched, and while he lost only a guidebook, he was badly injured as he held on to it and was dragged behind the attacking motorcycle.

   • 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 43:

     Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.

   • 2025 October 7, Jason Zinoman, “What Clowns! (That’s a Compliment)”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2025:

     Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.

同意語

• (motor-powered vehicle): bike, chopper, cycle, moped, motorbicycle (obsolete), motorbike, autobike, autobicycle (obsolete)

等位語

• bicycle, bike, e-bike (differentiated by societal convention even when having two or three wheels and a motor)

派生語

派生した語

• → Bengali: মোটর সাইকেল (mōṭor śaikel)
• → Burmese: မော်တော်ဆိုင်ကယ် (mautauhcuingkai)
• → Danish: motorcykel
• → Hindi: मोटरसाइकिल (moṭarsāikil)
• → Malay: motosikal
• → Norwegian Bokmål: motorsykkel
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: motorsykkel
• → Swedish: motorcykel
• → Thai: มอเตอร์ไซค์ (mɔɔ-dtəə-sai)

参考

• scooter

動詞

motorcycle (third-person singular simple present motorcycles, present participle motorcycling, simple past and past participle motorcycled)

1. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle.