• _haha_oh_wow_OPM
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    11 months ago

    Aren’t pushbikes specifically bikes with no drive train at all and you just kinda walk it along the ground?

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      11 months ago

      You’re thinking of balance bikes. “Pushbike” has had a dictionary definition well before then. It’s probably a century old at this point.

      I’m now starting to think it’s one of those words that never got adoption outside the commonwealth.

      Maybe it’s just Australia where we wrote songs about pushbikes 50 years ago.

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        11 months ago

        Ah, ok, yeah it might be a regional thing. I don’t think I’ve heard that term in the US.