The sport we know as cycling is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for cycling in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for cycling in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of cycling in the other languages.
Name by Language
Language | Name for the sport of cycling |
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Afrikaans | Fietsry |
Albanian | Çiklizmi |
Anglo-Saxon | Hwēolrinnung |
Arabic | ركوب الدراجات |
Aragonese | Ciclismo |
Asturian | Ciclismu |
Azerbaijani | Velosiped idmanı |
Basque | Txirrindularitza |
Bengali | সাইকেল চালনা |
Bosnian | Biciklizam |
Breton | Marc'hhouarnerezh |
Bulgarian | Колоездене |
Cantonese | 單車運動 |
Catalan | Ciclisme |
Chinese | 骑车 |
Croatian | Biciklizam |
Czech | Cyklistika |
Danish | Cykling |
Dutch | Fietsverkeer |
English | Cycling |
Esperanto | Biciklado |
Estonian | Jalgrattasõit |
Finnish | Pyöräily |
French | Cyclisme |
Galician | Ciclismo |
German | Fahrradfahren |
Greek | Ποδηλασία |
Hebrew | רכיבה על אופניים |
Hungarian | Kerékpározás |
Icelandic | Hjólreiðar |
Ido | Biciklagado |
Indonesian | Bersepeda |
Italian | Ciclismo |
Japanese | サイクリング |
Javanese | Nyepédhah |
Korean | 자전거 타기 |
Latin | Birotatio |
Latvian | Riteņbraukšana |
Lojban | jbonunsla |
Macedonian | Велосипедизам |
Malayalam | സൈക്കിളിംഗ് |
Nāhuatl | Ōmmalacapayīnaliztli |
Norwegian | Sykling |
Norwegian | Sykling |
Occitan | Ciclisme |
Persian | دوچرخهسواری |
Polish | Kolarstwo |
Portuguese | Ciclismo |
Quechua | Bisiklita yallinakuy |
Romanian | Ciclism |
Russian | Езда на велосипеде |
Scots | Cyclin |
Serbian | Бициклизам |
Serbo-Croatian | Biciklizam |
Sicilian | Ciclismu |
Slovak | Cyklistika |
Slovene | Kolesarstvo |
Spanish | Ciclismo |
Swahili | Mashindano ya baiskeli |
Thai | การปั่นจักรยาน |
Turkish | Bisiklet (spor) |
Turkmen | Welosiped bäsleşigi |
Ukrainian | Їзда на велосипеді |
Vietnamese | Đạp xe |
Walloon | Ciclisse |
Welsh | Seiclo |
Wu | 踏车 |