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cycle rickshaw
(redirected from bicycle rickshaws)

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Noun1.cycle rickshaw - a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling)cycle rickshaw - a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire; "boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs"
tricycle, trike, velocipede - a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals


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The other leaders were earlier transported to their dinner marquee aboard old-fashioned bicycle rickshaws, pedalled by men in wide-brimmed straw hats at Singapore's premier arts venue, the Esplanade.
There are no bicycle rickshaws careering past her as she buys sacks of rice, no humour-filled haggling over price of an egg and no demanding neighbours yelling down from their windows for shopping favors.
Jakarta even tossed 20,000 bicycle rickshaws into Jakarta Bay in the 1980s to rid the city of a 'backward technology'.
 
 
 
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