Exercyclen.
/ˈɛksəˌsʌɪk(ə)l/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
A proprietary name for a type of stationary bicycle or frame designed to be pedalled for exercise.
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Exercycle1936
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1936 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Mar. 970/2 Exercycle... For exercising machines. Claims use since Sept. 1, 1935.
1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 4 Dec. (1970) 594 Every day now, for more than a week, he's taken exercise on that exercycle thing.
1969 Trade Marks Jrnl. 19 Feb. 305/1 Exercycle... Apparatus in the nature of a stationary bicycle, for exercising the body.
1977 Guardian Weekly 30 Oct. 15/4 The all-motion, no-movement character of an exercycle.
1986 Jrnl. (Fairfax County, Va.) 27 May b3 Riding exercycles that measure pulse rate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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