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      Kids of that age would more-or-less walk while sitting on these. The pedaling comes after balance training (unlike how my generation used tricycles at the same age).

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          It’s a real shame people can’t learn to drive properly with them, like riding a bike properly on a push bike.

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        Yes, it’s called a balance bike and they’re pretty cool. They prepare children for “real” bikes and also help them walk more without getting tired.

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        Balance bikes are amazing. My kid rode hers daily to day care and back (half a mile or more). At 3 got a pedal bike with no training wheels. Made some progress day one, next day was literally riding. Has been riding ever since. Never had training wheels.

        Balance bikes work on the premise that the hardest part of learning to ride isn’t the pedals. It’s learning how to balance

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      Bicycles are called bikes in the US and some other countries.

      I assume you come from one of the countries where motorcycles are called bikes?

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        While everything you said is correct, it still has no pedals. I thought we (USA) called these scooters.

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          Like the other reply said, it is called a Balance Bike.

          To add some more context, it is not a scooter because you aren’t supposed to stand up on them but sit like a real bike but you move by pushing with your feet. They are training bikes for toddlers before they have the hand-eye coordination for peddling and you can either graduate to a kids bicycle with training wheels or some kids just go straight to the bicycle without the training wheels.

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      indeed.

      The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine (“running machine” in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicle that, being the first means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, is regarded as the forerunner of the bicycle.

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        Freiherr Carl von Swag

        MFW dandy horse

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        Ahhhhh I see the detail I was missing now, thank you.