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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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Bike is short for bicycle. Motorcycles aren’t bikes. Obviously the short form of motorcycle is mike.

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Bike is short for Bichael

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I think they’re referring to the lack of pedals.

A push bike is a type of bicycle. https://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/bikes/kids-bikes/push-bikes

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Just realized there aren’t pedals.

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If you grew grew a bush into a push bike and cut off all the flowers, it would be a bike with no pedals and no petals.

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Are you telling me the flintstones had a bike

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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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It’s a balance bike. I think of scooters as not having a seat.

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I completely agree. Unless of course you’re talking about a Vespa… 🫠

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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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I thought bikes have pedals, we would call that a scooter

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