scooter

See also Scooter

English

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(r)

Noun

scooter (plural scooters)

1. A kick scooter.
2. A small motor-powered bicycle of similar design, also motor scooter.
3. A mobility scooter, i.e. an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.
4. Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.
5. A type of ice yacht known at least in the state of New York, equipped with runners for travelling over ice. The body has a flat bottom and is capable of floating in the water which makes it safe to use also on thin ice.

Translations

a child's foot-operated vehicle

• Catalan: patinet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滑板車 (cmn), 滑板车 (cmn) (huábǎnchē), 滑行車 (cmn), 滑行车 (cmn) (huáxíngchē)

• Czech: ("wheel-runner") koloběžka (cs) f
• Danish: løbehjul (da)
• Dutch: step (nl) m
• Finnish: potkulauta (fi)
• French: trottinette (fr) f
• German: Tretroller (de) m, Trittroller (de) m
• Greek: πατίνι (el) (patíni) n

• Italian: monopattino (it) m
• Japanese: キックスクーター (ja) (kikkusukūtā)
• Macedonian: тротинет (mk) (trotinét) m
• Norwegian: sparkesykkel (no) m, sparksykkel (no) m
• Polish: hulajnoga (pl) f
• Portuguese: patinete (pt) m
• Russian: самокат (ru) (samokát) m
• Spanish: patineta (es) f, monopatín (es) m, patín del diablo (es) m
• Swedish: sparkcykel (sv)

motor-scooter

• Arabic: سكوتر (ar) (skuutar) m, بسكليتة (ar) (biskilíyya) f
• Catalan: escúter (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 速克達 (cmn), 速克达 (cmn) (sùkèdá), 機車 (cmn), 机车 (cmn) (jīchē)

• Czech: skútr (cs)
• Danish: scooter (da)
• Dutch: scooter (nl) m
• Esperanto: skotero (eo)
• Finnish: skootteri (fi)
• French: scooter (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Motorroller (de) m
• Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (el) (motopodílato) n, σκούτερ (el) (skoúter) n
• Hebrew: קטנוע (he)
• Hindi: स्कूटर (hi)
• Italian: scooter (it)
• Japanese: スクーター (ja) (sukūtā)
• Kazakh: мотороллер (kk) (motoroller)

• Korean: 스쿠터 (ko) (seukuteo)
• Latin: birotula automataria (la)
• Lingala: mobilette (ln)
• Macedonian: скутер (mk) (skúter) m
• Malay: skuter (ms)
• Malayalam: സ്കൂട്ടർ (ml)
• Norwegian: moped (no) m, scooter (no)
• Polish: skuter (pl) m
• Portuguese: motoneta (pt), lambreta (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: мотороллер (ru) (motoróller) m, скутер (ru) (skútɛr) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скутер (sh)

  Roman: skuter (sh)

• Slovak: skúter (sk)
• Spanish: scooter (es) m
• Swedish: moped (sv), skoter (sv)
• Thai: สกู๊ตเตอร์ (th) (sà-góot-dtêr)
• Turkish: scooter (tr)

mobility scooter

• Dutch: scootmobiel (nl) m

• Finnish: sähköpyörätuoli (fi)

scoter

• Finnish: mustalintu (fi)

• Greek: μαυρόπαπια (el) (mavrópapia) f

Derived terms

• air scooter
• diving scooter
• dog scooter
• gym scooter
• ice scooter
• kick scooter or kickscooter
• knee scooter
• maxiscooter
• mobility scooter
• mobility scooter
• motorized-scooter
• motor scooter or motorscooter
• push scooter or pushscooter
• scootering
• scooterist
• sea scooter
• sky scooter
• square scooter
• water scooter

Verb

scooter (third-person singular simple present scooters, present participle scootering, simple past and past participle scootered)

1. To ride on a scooter.
   • 2005 October 24, “Love Those Boomers”:

     But execs at parent company Piaggio noticed something odd as they scootered back and forth to their Manhattan offices […]

Derived terms

• scootering

Anagrams

• cooters

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Dutch

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Noun

scooter

scooter m (plural scooters, diminutive scootertje)

1. scooter

See also

• motorfiets

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English.

Pronunciation

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Noun

scooter m (plural scooters)

1. scooter (motor-powered bicycle, sailing vessel)

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English.

Noun

scooter m (invariable)

1. scooter (motor-powerred bicycle, sailing vessel)

Anagrams

• costerò, cretoso, estorco, scoterò