Of the Adirondackers who make their homes here and then rarely use them—the outdoorsiest of the outdoorspeople—some climb mountains, others cliffs; some pushpedals, other paddles;[…]
(medicine) an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
(music) Aneffects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
pedal (third-person singular simple presentpedals,present participle(UK)pedallingor(US)pedaling,simple past and past participle(UK)pedalledor(US)pedaled)
To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
He was out of breath frompedalling up the steep hill.
1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, inThe Courier News, volume80, number286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3:
In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficultypedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
2009, Dennis Bailey, Keith Gates,Bike Repair and Maintenance For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN:
Crucial to the crankset is the bottom bracket. Of all the bearings on a bike, the bottom bracket is the one that has to bear the heaviest load. Not only does the bottom bracket have to spin while youpedal, but it takes the force of all the twisting and turning that occurs duringpedaling.
The old man's backside fizgigged with laughter. "See ya, kid!" he called as Davepedaled away.
2020 August 29, Jeremy Whittle, “Alexander Kristoff takes Tour de France yellow jersey after day of crashe”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Pinot was among those involved in the huge pile-up just as the race entered the final three kilometres. Grazes were visible under his torn clothing as hepedalled, with a face like thunder, to the finish line.
