Collocations for "wheel"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "wheel" in context.
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wheel
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the [car, bike, bicycle, motorcycle, van, truck] wheels
- the [rear, back, front] wheels
- the [rear] [left, right] wheel
- keep the spare wheel in the trunk
- [rotate, align] the wheels
- [turn, grip, hold on to] the steering wheel
- the wheels went into a [skid, spin]
- the wheels were spinning in the [mud, ditch]
- a hamster spinning around its wheel
- went on the Ferris wheel at the fair
- idiom: spin the wheel of Fortune
- spin the roulette wheel
- the mouse wheel
- the wheels of [commerce, change, time]
- informal: need to keep the wheels turning (at)
- slang: driving his [brother's, dad's] wheels
- [the car, she] wheeled around
- wheel the [cart, luggage, stretcher]
- wheel the [cart] down the hall
- wheeled [the patient, her] [out, around] in a wheelchair
- [the patient] was wheeled out
- wheeled [the patient] into surgery
- wheeled him off to [the hospital, the emergency room]
- wheel and deal
- wheel out the same (tired) old [excuses, clichés]
- wheel [alignment, covers]
- [a four, an all, a front, a rear] -wheel drive vehicle
'wheel' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
alignment
- behind
- cart
- cheese
- churn
- clamp
- clay
- clench
- dessert
- drive
- dropout
- drowsy
- drum
- drunk
- fatigue
- grinder
- grinding
- grip
- hub
- jack
- join
- pottery
- ratchet
- rear
- rut
- shoulder
- skid
- spare
- spell
- spin
- spindle
- spinning
- spoke
- steady
- steer
- steering
- strut
- suitcase
- tracking
- true
- turn
- wobble
- wrestle