Utility: transportation, bicycle commuting, and utility cycling
Work: mail delivery, paramedics, police, couriering, and general delivery.
Recreation: bicycle touring, mountain biking, BMX and physical fitness.
Racing: track racing, criterium, roller racing and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour of California, Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España, the Volta a Portugal, among others.
Military: scouting, troop movement, supply of provisions, and patrol. See bicycle infantry.
Show: entertainment and performance, e.g. Artistic cyclings.