mountain bike

See also: mountainbike and Mountainbike

English

a mountain bike in Arizona

a mountain bike in Austria

a mountain bike, labeled

Pronunciation

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Noun

mountain bike (plural mountain bikes)

2. (cycling) A bicycle specially designed for off-road riding, typically with straight, flat handlebars, a heavier frame than road bikes, higher ground clearance, and wider tires, sometimes with knobs on them for greater traction.

   Alternative form: mountainbike

   Synonyms: MTB, mountain bicycle, trail bike, ATB, all-terrain bike

   Coordinate term: road bike

Derived terms

• mountain biker
• mountain biking

Translations

bicycle especially designed for off-road riding

• Arabic: دَرَّاجَة لِلْجِبَال f (darrājat li-l-jibāl)
• Belarusian: го́рны веласіпе́д m (hórny vjelasipjéd)
• Bulgarian: плани́нски велосипе́д m (planínski velosipéd)
• Catalan: bicicleta de muntanya f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山地車 / 山地车 (zh) (shāndìchē), 登山車 / 登山车 (zh) (dēngshānchē)

• Czech: horské kolo n
• Danish: mountainbike (da) c
• Dutch: mountainbike (nl) m
• Finnish: maastopyörä (fi), krossipyörä
• French: vélo tout terrain (fr) m, VTT (fr) m, vélo de montagne (fr) m
• German: Mountainbike (de) n, Geländerad n
• Greek: ποδήλατο βουνού n (podílato vounoú)
• Hungarian: hegyikerékpár
• Indonesian: sepeda gunung (id)
• Irish: rothar sléibhe m
• Italian: mountain bike (it) f, bicicletta da montagna f, bici da montagna f, rampichino (it) m
• Japanese: マウンテンバイク (ja) (maunten baiku)
• Korean: 산악자전거(山岳自轉車) (sanakjajeon'geo)
• Malay: basikal gunung
• Norman: bike à montangne f
• Polish: rower górski (pl) m inan, góral (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: bicicleta de montanha (pt) f, mountain bike (pt) f
• Russian: го́рный велосипе́д m (górnyj velosipéd)
• Slovak: horský bicykel m
• Spanish: bicicleta de montaña f, bicimontaña f, mountain bike (es) m, bicicleta montañera f
• Swedish: mountainbike (sv) c
• Thai: จักรยานเสือภูเขา
• Turkish: dağ bisikleti (tr)
• Ukrainian: гі́рський велосипе́д m (hírsʹkyj velosypéd)
• Vietnamese: xe đạp leo núi

Further reading

• mountain bike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mountain bike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mawn.temˈbajk/, /mon.temˈbajk/
• Rhymes: -ajk

• Audio:

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Noun

mountain bike f (invariable)

1. (cycling) mountain bike (bicycle and sport)

   Synonym: (bicycle only) rampichino

Related terms

• biker

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mountain bike.

Noun

mountain bike f (plural mountain bikes)

1. mountain bike (bicycle designed for off-road riding)

   Synonym: bicicleta de montanha

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English mountain bike.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmuntaim ˈbaik/ [ˌmũn̪.t̪ãĩm ˈbai̯k]
• IPA^(key): /ˌmontam ˈbaik/ [ˌmõn̪.t̪ãm ˈbai̯k]
• Syllabification: moun‧tain bike

Noun

mountain bike m (plural mountain bikes)

1. mountain bike

   Synonym: bicicleta de montaña

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “mountain bike”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA