different between bicyclism vs bicyclist

English

Etymology

bicycle +? -ism

Noun

bicyclism (uncountable)

1. (dated) The art of riding a bicycle.
   • 1879, The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated

     Here we have the ninth number of the fourth volume of a journal devoted to the great and noble art of Bicyclism. A modern art, unknown utterly to our forefathers, it has sprung into existence with intense velocity […]

   • 1882, Ward and Lock's home book (page 1041)

     One result of bicyclism is that many retired nooks and corners of our beautiful island are now more effectually explored than they ever were before; the grass-grown turnpike roads are no longer peopled only by farmers' manure-carts […]

English

Etymology

bicycle +? -ist

Noun

bicyclist (plural bicyclists)

1. Rare form of cyclist.

   Synonym: biker

   • 1945, The Motor (volume 86, page 275)

     Our policemen, of course, will be fitted out with large, twirlable moustaches and small, twirlable rolling-pins, and will be taught to turn their backs on traffic jams, but to blow whistles violently at solitary bicyclists.

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