Thread: Get Parent Category of current category

Get Parent Category of current category

Hello developers,

On a category page I need to get/echo the first level parent category.

For example parent category = bikes child cat = red

On the child cat page I need to echo the word 'bikes'

Something likes this (not working):
$thiscat = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
$catid = $thiscat->cat_ID;
$parent = $thiscat->category_parent;

Any help would be great!

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