two-wheeler

Bike or scooter

A two-wheeler is any vehicle with two wheels, especially a bicycle or motorcycle.

The term appears most often in Indian English, where it encompasses scooters, mopeds, and motorbikes as a category: Two-wheelers dominate urban traffic in Delhi.

Elsewhere the word is mainly used by or around children learning to ride: She just graduated from training wheels to a two-wheeler.

nonstandard

bicycle

Pedal-powered two-wheeler

motorcycle · bike · cycle · velocipede · penny-farthing · tandem · BMX · chopper · cruiser · Vespa

Categories
Opposites
number of wheels

two-wheelerfour-wheeler

Motorized off-road vehicle

car · automobile · tricycle · three-wheeler · quadricycle

Family

wheel, wheels, tricycle, twosome, wheeled, wheelchair, wheeling, twofold, wheeler

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G