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How to spell biking

hear itbik·ing/'baɪkɪŋ/nounLong vowels

What it means: The activity of riding a bicycle.

In a sentence: I love biking on sunny days with my friends.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as bikeing or bikking.

Same family: biker, biked, bicycle, cycling. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "biking" comes from "bike," a short form of "bicycle," which was formed from Latin roots meaning "two" (bi-) and "wheel" (cycle). People started using "bike" and "biking" informally in English in the late 1800s when bicycles became popular for travel and sport.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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