Plural form of cycling; multiple instances or types of bicycle riding, racing, or cycling activities.
From 'cycle' plus '-ing' (verbal noun suffix creating gerund) plus '-s' (plural). The gerund form 'cycling' became popular in the 1890s during the bicycle boom.
Cyclings became a huge social category in Victorian times—there were cyclings for sport, cyclings for transportation, social cyclings (group rides for pleasure), and competitive cyclings (races), and each had its own culture!
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