cable car

See also: cablecar and cable-car

English

Alternative forms

(Both of these spellings are less common)

• cablecar
• cable-car

Noun

cable car (plural cable cars)

1. (US, Philippines) A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.

   Synonym: (chiefly British English) cable tram

2. Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.

   Synonym: people mover

   • 2023 March 22, “Network News: Luton DART opens for business”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:

     The Luton Direct Air-Rail Transit (DART) opened to passengers on March 10. The 1.3-mile cable car system is initially available for public use between 1400-1900 before opening in full at the end of the month.

3. A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo

   Synonyms: tram, aerial tram, ropeway, gondola, gondola lift, telpher

Translations

hanging carriage

• Afrikaans: kabelkar, sweefspoor
• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: تلفريك m (tilifrīk)

• Armenian: ճոպանուղու խցիկ (čopanuġu xcʻik) (the car itself), ճոպանուղի (hy) (čopanuġi) (the system)
• Bengali: কেব্লকার (keblokar)
• Catalan: telefèric (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 纜車／缆车 (zh) (lǎnchē)

• Dutch: kabelbaan (nl) f
• Finnish: köysirata (fi)
• French: téléphérique (fr) m, chariot (fr) (only the car/carriage)
• Galician: teleférico m
• German: Pendelbahn f
• Greek: τελεφερίκ (el) m (teleferík)
• Hebrew: רכבל (he) m (rakével, rachbál)
• Icelandic: kláfur m, loftferja f, kláfferja f
• Ido: kabloveturo (io)
• Italian: funivia (it) f
• Japanese: ケーブルカー (ja) (kēburukā)
• Korean: 케이블카 (keibeulka)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: teleferîk (ku) f

• Latvian: vagoniņš m
• Lithuanian: vagoniņš m
• Macedonian: жича́рница f (žičárnica), жи́чница f (žíčnica)
• Malay: kereta kabel
• Maltese: funikular f
• Navajo: yátʼááh naʼaloʼí, chidí dahnaalchʼąąłí
• Norwegian: taubane, togbane
• Persian: تله‌کابین (tele-kâbin)
• Polish: kolej linowa (pl) f, kolejka linowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: teleférico (pt) m
• Romanian: telecabină (ro) f
• Russian: ваго́н кана́тной доро́ги m (vagón kanátnoj dorógi) (the car itself), кана́тная доро́га (ru) f (kanátnaja doróga) (the system)
• Spanish: teleférico (es) m
• Swedish: kabinbana (sv) c, linbana (sv) c
• Tagalog: kablekotse
• Tamil: கேபிள் கார் (kēpiḷ kār)
• Turkish: teleferik (tr)

Further reading

• Doppelmayr Cable Car on Wikipedia.Wikipedia