Editing Bicycle (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''bicycle'' first appeared in English print in ''[[The Daily News (UK)|The Daily News]]'' in 1868, to describe "Bysicles and trysicles" on the "Champs Elysées and Bois de Boulogne".<ref name=OED>{{OED|bicycle}}</ref> The word was first used in 1847 in a French publication to describe an unidentified two-wheeled vehicle, possibly a carriage.<ref name=OED/> The design of the bicycle was an advance on the [[velocipede]], although the words were used with some degree of overlap for a time.<ref name=OED/><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bicycle |title=bicycle (n.) |dictionary=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref>

Other words for bicycle include "bike",<ref>{{OED|bike}}</ref> "pushbike",<ref>{{OED|pushbike}}</ref> "pedal cycle",<ref>{{OED|pedal cycle}}</ref> or "cycle".<ref>{{OED|cycle}}</ref> In [[Unicode]], the [[code point]] for "bicycle" is 0x1F6B2. The [[Numeric character reference|entity]] <code>&amp;#x1F6B2;</code> in [[HTML]] produces 🚲.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F680.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F680.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Transport and Map Symbols |publisher=unicode.org |access-date=10 February 2014}}</ref>

Although bike and cycle are used interchangeably to refer mostly to two types of two-wheelers, the terms still vary across the world. In India, for example, a cycle<ref>{{cite news |date= |title=Why has India's Calcutta city banned cycling? |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-24237390 |access-date=28 February 2022}}</ref> refers only to a two-wheeler using pedal power whereas the term bike is used to describe a two-wheeler using [[internal combustion engine]] or [[electric motors]] as a source of motive power instead of motorcycle/motorbike.