biker

See also: Biker

English

Bikers in the US.

Etymology

From bike +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯kɚ/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑjkə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbajkɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: bichir

Noun

biker (plural bikers)

1. A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.

   Synonyms: (Australia, some hold that there is a distinction) bikie, motorcyclist

   Coordinate term: trucker

   • 2003 November 21, David Booth, “Honda’s Rune an impressive and intoxicating easy rider”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page H4, column 1:

     Others, mostly behelmeted casual bikers whose enthusiasm for motorcycling is a monthly Sunday morning ride, also took in the gleam of the chrome and outrageous styling, but were confused that it had a Honda badge on it rather than Harley’s winged logo.

   • 2004, Tom Burns, Jeffrey W. Hunter, editors, Contemporary Literary Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Today’s Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Short Story Writers, Scriptwriters, and Other Creative Writers, volume 187, Gale, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 15:

     There’s a wonderful sketch of a formidable biker called “Roundhouse,” who is “humongously fat and hasn’t had a haircut since third grade.”

   • 2015 May 19, Ed Payne, “Biker gangs: A history of violence”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Bikers did what bikers do. They raced around and popped wheelies. The state police were called in to clear the town.
     The event got big play in Life magazine and inspired the 1953 film “The Wild One,” starring Marlon Brando. His leather jacket and brooding demeanor gave a face to the bad-boy biker image.

2. (cycling) A cyclist.
   • 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Lots of pockets help with a commute, a storm hood is great if you get caught in a storm on a hike, weight and packability are essential for backpackers and if you’re a climber or biker, you’ll want a helmet-compatible hood.

Derived terms

• biker bar
• biker bitch
• e-biker
• fat biker
• mountain biker
• nonbiker

Descendants

• → French: biker (noun), bikeur
• → German: Biker
• → Italian: biker
• → Spanish: biker

Translations

person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles

• Arabic: دَرَّاج m (darrāj)
• Danish: rocker
• Dutch: motorrijder (nl) m, motorrijdster (nl) f, biker (nl) m
• Finnish: motoristi (fi)
• French: motocycliste (fr) m or f, motard (fr) m, motarde (fr) f, biker (fr) m, bikeur (fr) m, bikeuse (fr) f
• Galician: moteiro m, moteira f
• German: Biker (de) m, Bikerin (de) f, Rocker (de) m, Rockerin (de) f
• Greek: μηχανόβιος (el) m (michanóvios), μηχανόβια (el) f (michanóvia)
• Hebrew: אוֹפַנּוֹעָן m (ofano'án)
• Italian: motociclista (it) m, centauro (it) m
• Japanese: バイカー (baikā)
• Korean: 바이커 (baikeo)
• Macedonian: моторџија m (motordžija)
• Maori: kaieke motopaika
• Romanian: motociclist (ro) m, motociclistă (ro) f, biker (ro) m
• Russian: мотоцикли́ст (ru) m (motociklíst), ба́йкер (ru) m (bájker) (especially of members of motorcycle clubs)
• Spanish: motero m, motera f
• Swedish: knutte (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ба́йкер m (bájker)
• Volapük: (♂♀) motorasaikulan, (♂) motorahisaikulan, (♀) motorajisaikulan, (collective ♂♀) motorasaikulanef, (pejorative ♂♀) motoralusaikulan, (pejorative ♂) motorahilusaikulan, (pejorative ♀) motorajilusaikulan, (pejorative, collective ♂♀) motoralusaikulanef
• Walloon: motård m

person who rides a bicycle — see cyclist

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} motociclista (it) m or f (person who rides a motorcycle); ^{(please verify)} ciclista (it) m or f

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English biker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbajkr̩]

Noun

biker m anim (female equivalent bikerka, relational adjective bikerský)

1. (cycling) mountain biker

Declension

Declension of biker (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	biker	bikeři
genitive	bikera	bikerů
dative	bikerovi, bikeru	bikerům
accusative	bikera	bikery
vocative	bikere	bikeři
locative	bikerovi, bikeru	bikerech
instrumental	bikerem	bikery

Further reading

• “biker”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• “biker” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz

French

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English biker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj.kœʁ/

Noun

biker m (plural bikers, feminine bikeuse)

1. biker

   Synonyms: bikeur, motard

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bike (verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj.ke/

Verb

biker

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to bike (ride a bike)

Conjugation

Conjugation of biker (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	biker
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bikant /baj.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		biké /baj.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bike /ba.jɛk/	bikes /ba.jɛk/	bike /ba.jɛk/	bikons /baj.kɔ̃/	bikez /baj.ke/	bikent /ba.jɛk/
	imperfect	bikais /baj.kɛ/	bikais /baj.kɛ/	bikait /baj.kɛ/	bikions /ba.jə.kjɔ̃/	bikiez /ba.jə.kje/	bikaient /baj.kɛ/
	past historic2	bikai /baj.ke/	bikas /baj.ka/	bika /baj.ka/	bikâmes /baj.kam/	bikâtes /baj.kat/	bikèrent /baj.kɛʁ/
	future	bikerai /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁe/	bikeras /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁa/	bikera /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁa/	bikerons /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁɔ̃/	bikerez /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁe/	bikeront /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bikerais /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁɛ/	bikerais /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁɛ/	bikerait /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁɛ/	bikerions /ba.j(ə).kə.ʁjɔ̃/	bikeriez /ba.j(ə).kə.ʁje/	bikeraient /ba.jə.k(ə).ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	bike /ba.jɛk/	bikes /ba.jɛk/	bike /ba.jɛk/	bikions /ba.jə.kjɔ̃/	bikiez /ba.jə.kje/	bikent /ba.jɛk/
	imperfect2	bikasse /baj.kas/	bikasses /baj.kas/	bikât /baj.ka/	bikassions /baj.ka.sjɔ̃/	bikassiez /baj.ka.sje/	bikassent /baj.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bike /ba.jɛk/	—	bikons /baj.kɔ̃/	bikez /baj.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English biker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaj.ker/
• Rhymes: -ajker

Noun

biker m or f by sense (invariable)

1. (cycling) mountain biker
2. biker (motorcyclist)

   Synonym: motociclista

Related terms

• mountain bike

Further reading

• biker in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English biker.

Noun

biker m (plural bikeri)

1. biker

Declension

Declension of biker

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	biker	bikerul		bikeri	bikerii
genitive-dative	biker	bikerului		bikeri	bikerilor
vocative	bikerule			bikerilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English biker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaikeɾ/ [ˈbai̯.keɾ]
• Rhymes: -aikeɾ

Noun

biker m (plural bikers)

1. biker

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.