scooter

See also: Scooter

English

Etymology

From scoot +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskuːtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(r)

Noun

scooter (plural scooters)

1. A kick scooter or push scooter; a human-powered land vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground.
2. A motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.
3. A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.
4. An ice scooter; a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht used in the state of New York, equipped with runners for traveling over ice.
5. Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• air scooter
• diving scooter
• dog scooter
• gym scooter
• ice scooter
• kick scooter or kickscooter

• knee scooter
• maxiscooter
• mobility scooter
• motorized scooter
• motor scooter or motorscooter
• push scooter or pushscooter

• scootering
• scooterist
• sea scooter
• sky scooter
• square scooter
• water scooter

Descendants

• Malay: skuter

Translations

foot-propelled vehicle

• Armenian: ինքնագլոր (inkʻnaglor)
• Belarusian: самака́т m (samakát)
• Catalan: patinet (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: ("wheel-runner") koloběžka (cs) f
• Danish: løbehjul
• Dutch: step (nl) f
• Esperanto: skutilo
• Finnish: potkulauta (fi)
• French: trottinette (fr) f
• Galician: patinete m
• Georgian: თვითგორია (tvitgoria), თვითმგორავი (tvitmgoravi)
• German: Tretroller (de) m, Trittroller m
• Greek: πατίνι (el) n (patíni)
• Hebrew: קוֹרְקִינֵט (he) m (korkinet)
• Italian: monopattino (it) m
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• Japanese: キックスケーター (kikkusukētā), スクーター (ja) (sukūtā)
• Korean: 킥 스쿠터 (kik seukuteo), 스쿠터 (seukuteo)
• Macedonian: тротине́т m (trotinét)
• Malay: skuter
• Norwegian: sparkesykkel m, sparksykkel m
• Polish: hulajnoga (pl) f
• Portuguese: patinete (pt) m, trotineta (pt) f
• Romanian: trotinetă (ro)
• Russian: самока́т (ru) m (samokát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тротинет m

  Roman: trotinet (sh) m

• Spanish: patineta (es) f, monopatín (es) m, patín del diablo m
• Swedish: sparkcykel (sv)
• Ukrainian: самока́т m (samokát)

motor-scooter

• Arabic: سْكُوتَر m (skūtar), بِسْكِلِيتَّة f (biskilitta)
• Belarusian: мотаро́лер m (motaróljer), ску́тэр m (skúter)
• Catalan: escúter m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: skútr (cs)
• Danish: scooter (da)
• Dutch: scooter (nl) m
• Esperanto: skotero
• Estonian: motoroller
• Finnish: skootteri (fi)
• French: scooter (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Motorroller (de) m
• Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (el) n (motopodílato), σκούτερ (el) n (skoúter)
• Hebrew: קַטְנוֹעַ (he), טוּסְטוּס m (tústus)
• Hindi: स्कूटर (skūṭar)
• Hungarian: robogó (hu)
• Indonesian: skuter (id)
• Italian: scooter (it)
• Japanese: スクーター (ja) (sukūtā)
• Kazakh: мотороллер (motoroller)
• Khmer: ម៉ូតូ (mootoo)
• Korean: 스쿠터 (seukuteo)
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• Lao: ລົດຈັກ (lo) (lot chak)
• Latvian: motorollers m
• Lingala: mobilette
• Macedonian: скутер m (skuter)
• Malay: skuter
• Malayalam: സ്കൂട്ടർ (skūṭṭaṟ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: scooter m, skuter m

  Nynorsk: scooter m, skuter m

• Polish: skuter (pl) m
• Portuguese: motoneta, lambreta (pt)
• Romanian: scuter (ro) n
• Russian: моторо́ллер (ru) m (motoróller), ску́тер (ru) m (skútɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скутер

  Roman: skuter (sh)

• Slovak: skúter
• Spanish: scooter (es) m
• Swedish: moped (sv), skoter (sv)
• Thai: สกู๊ตเตอร์ (sà-gúut-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: scooter
• Ukrainian: моторо́лер m (motoróler), ску́тер m (skúter)
• Vietnamese: xe xcutơ

mobility scooter

• Dutch: scootmobiel (nl) m
• Finnish: sähköpyörätuoli (fi)
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• Spanish: escúter (es), vespa (es)

scoter

• Finnish: mustalintu (fi)
• Greek: μαυρόπαπια f (mavrópapia)
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• Polish: uhla (pl) f, markaczka (pl) f

See also

• moped

Verb

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

1. To ride on a scooter.

Derived terms

• scootering

Anagrams

• Cooters, cooters

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsku.tər/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utər

Noun

scooter

scooter m (plural scooters, diminutive scootertje n)

1. scooter

See also

• motorfiets

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sku.tœʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

scooter m (plural scooters)

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

Further reading

• “scooter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Uno scooter – A scooter

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsku.ter/, [ˈs̪kuːt̪er̺]
• Hyphenation: scoo‧ter

Noun

scooter m (uncountable) Template:wiki

1. (vehicles) scooter, specifically:
   1. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht, designed to travel over ice.
   2. motor scooter
   3. Short for acquascooter; water scooter

Derived terms

• acquascooter
• scooterista

Anagrams

• costerò, cretoso, estorco, scoterò

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English scooter

Noun

scooter m (definite singular scooteren, indefinite plural scootere, definite plural scooterne)

1. a scooter (type of motorcycle)
2. short for snøscooter, vannscooter.

Alternative forms

• skuter

Derived terms

• snøscooter
• vannscooter

References

• “scooter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “scooter” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English scooter

Noun

scooter m (definite singular scooteren, indefinite plural scooterar, definite plural scooterane)

1. a scooter (type of motorcycle)
2. short for snøscooter, vasscooter etc..

Alternative forms

• skuter

Derived terms

• snøscooter
• vasscooter, vass-scooter

References

• “scooter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Spanish

Noun

scooter m (plural scooters or scooter)

1. scooter (vehicle)