| The bicycle (French velocipede, Latin velox - fast and pes - foot) is a transport medium, which can be driven by the muscular force of a person through foot pedals or (sometimes) through manual levers. Most of the bicycles have two wheels, but there are also bicycles with three and four wheels and there are even single wheeled cycles.
The traffic rules define the bicycle as “a transport medium, except the carriages for physically handicapped, having two wheels or more and driven by the muscular force of people who ride on it”.
Nowadays in the whole world, more than one billion bicycles are used; therefore the bicycle is the most widespread medium of transport. It is so because of its low cost, light weight, small size and it does not require fuel and is also relatively safe.
In 2005, the results of a survey in Great Britain revealed that the bicycle has been recognized as the greatest engineering invention since 1800. A greater number of people voted in favor of the bicycle than for all the other inventions put together.
A ballerina is a woman dancer in the ballet.
Ballet (in French ballet, in Latin the word “ballo” means “I dance”) It is a type of stage art, in which music and dance are inseparably linked between themselves and they its basic expressions.
More often ballet has some plot, a dramatic script, libretto (synopsis), but there are ballets without plots also. The basic types of dance in a ballet are the classical dances and character dances. An important role in this is played by pantomime, which helps actors to express the feelings of heroes, “dialogs” between themselves, the essence about what is going on. In modern ballet, elements of gymnastics and acrobatics are also widely used.
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