What's the difference between bicyclist and biker?

Bicyclist


Definition:

  • (n.) A bicycler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are nominal cycle lanes on some of the capital's main thoroughfares, but with seven million cars jostling for space, those lanes are often cannibalised by motorised rickshaws and scooters, leaving no safe space for bicyclists.
  • (2) Through age 12, nine out of ten bicyclists were probably responsible for the collision; above age 12, probable responsibility decreased in proportion to age; and only 34% of the bicyclists aged 25 years or older were probably responsible.
  • (3) In a population of 402 motorcyclists and bicyclists, which were treated in the Traumatological Department of the University of Freiburg during 1986, we describe the different cause, spectrum and follow-up of the injuries.
  • (4) Police reports were compared to the information provided by a hospital monitoring system for children under 15 years old injured as pedestrians and bicyclists by moving motor vehicles in Orange County, California.
  • (5) Of the 649 emergency room treated bicyclists, 62% were children aged 5-14 and 70% were male.
  • (6) On the basis of the movements of the vehicles involved, the bicyclist or the bicycle or both was probably responsible for the initiation of more than three fourths of the collisions.
  • (7) Of 108 elementary schools bicyclists, only two (1.85%) wore helmets.
  • (8) To increase the helmet use among bicyclists, a law, as in Australia, would be an excellent instrument.
  • (9) In 1990, the first regulation requiring the use of helmets for bicyclists younger than 16 years of age was passed in Howard County, Maryland.
  • (10) The curfew ordinances were associated with a 23% reduction in motor vehicle related injury for 13- to 17-year-olds as passengers, drivers, pedestrians, or bicyclists during the curfew hours.
  • (11) Using an unpublished method developed by Somers, it was estimated that the risk of death from head injury was considerably reduced for helmeted relative to unhelmeted bicyclists, depending on helmet type.
  • (12) Head trauma is the most frequent cause of death and serious injury among bicyclists.
  • (13) Alcohol increased the bicyclist's risk of injury from falling more than from collision.
  • (14) Our study included 212 bicyclists with facial injuries and 319 controls with injuries to other body areas, who were treated in emergency rooms of five Seattle area hospitals over a one-year period.
  • (15) We collected questionnaire data by mail from 191 recreational bicyclists who reported having fallen and struck their heads in a cycling mishap.
  • (16) Motorcyclists, pedestrians, and bicyclists (bicycle collisions with motor vehicles) became controls for the study.
  • (17) Seven hundred bicyclists from the street were randomly selected as controls.
  • (18) To evaluate cycling morbidity, 492 active adult bicyclists from a metropolitan area responded to a survey to determine cycle use and accident patterns.
  • (19) These data suggest that the child's personality and behavior are weaker risk factors for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries than are family and neighborhood characteristics.
  • (20) Two- and one-leg extension strengths were compared in 155 female and male, untrained and trained (eight bicyclists, 38 weight-lifters) subjects and in a polio patient with almost no strength in one leg.

Biker


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
  • (2) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
  • (3) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
  • (4) Elsewhere, historian Dominic Sandbrook will look at the global domination of Britain’s post-empire popular culture, and the Hairy Bikers will take 30 retired people to a secondary school in Old School, attempting to transform the lives and experiences of both.
  • (5) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
  • (6) Many have bailout routes offering easy alternatives for bikers whose courage fails.
  • (7) Diana Nagy, a singer from San Francisco, shouted to an eclectic audience of bikers, veterans, pensioners and others.
  • (8) The bikers claim to be politically unaligned but say they are "cooperating closely" with the local authorities.
  • (9) Hikers and mountain bikers aren’t always the best of bedfellows, and the same applies in the snow – where the two are allowed to coexist, there is tension between fatbikers and cross-country skiers.
  • (10) Bikers for Trump: 'He'll get my vote because he's off his goddamn rocker' Read more Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won’t give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about “agitators” and “thugs” who make him feel unsafe.
  • (11) A group from a nearby church meets there weekly, and I recall a couple of very heterosexual, hairy bikers dropping in a few years back to taste the fruit smoothies.
  • (12) But with what he’s done – he’s clearly off his head too.” Play Video 0:47 Bikers join tribute rally for Manchester victim Olivia Campbell – video Gareth Stansfield, professor of Middle East politics at Exeter University, said Abedi appeared typical of many second-generation migrants drawn to Islamist groups.
  • (13) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
  • (14) Other items Editd forecasts to continue to sell well include backpacks and biker jackets.
  • (15) That night we drank local ales in Dirty Sally’s bar with the manager, biker Bill, clad in black leather Harley jacket with long grey hair in a ponytail.
  • (16) The murky nature of the seizures – seemingly both methodical and lawless – was amplified when the Russian Night Wolves biker gang, which has close ties to the Kremlin, arrived to guard the latter.
  • (17) I used to see Clinton from Pop Will Eat Itself and Blitz [top Oi combo] on scooter runs; we used to get attacked by bikers in Stourbridge (the Poppies' home town), till we followed Clinton down an alternative safe route."
  • (18) I don't drive, I have no interest in cars, I've never had the fantasy of nailing a nurse on the hood of my Buick or of being picked up by a bare-boobed biker chick riding a throbbing Harley.
  • (19) I'm slightly annoyed that you can't wave at people or flash at them - we ought to be like bikers and raise our visors.
  • (20) Under the slogan of fighting for democracy there is instead total fear, total propaganda, and no freedom.” Sablin was joined at the launch of anti-Maidan by Russian nationalist politicians, a female mixed martial arts champion and “The Surgeon”, leader of a biker gang known as the Night Wolves.

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