a rubber covering, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube, placed round a wheel to form a soft contact with the road

she had got a flat tyre while driving home

he was used to riding a mountain bike with wide tyres

a port on the Mediterranean in southern Lebanon; population 41,800 (est. 2009). Founded in the 2nd millennium BC as a colony of Sidon, it was for centuries a Phoenician port and trading centre