scouting

See also: Scouting

English

Alternative forms

• Scouting

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈskaʊtɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ

Noun

scouting (countable and uncountable, plural scoutings)

1. The act of one who scouts.
   • 1935, State Publication, numbers 136-145, page 73:

     Careful scoutings by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets were made in 1935, to determine the limits of invasion […]

2. The Scout Movement.
3. The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts.

Translations

act of one who scouts — see also reconnaissance

• Belarusian: разве́дка (be) f (razvjédka), рэкагнасцыро́ўка f (rekahnascyrówka)
• Catalan: escoltisme (ca) m
• Dutch: scouting (nl) f
• Finnish: partiolaisuus
• Hebrew: גישוש m (gishúsh)
• Italian: esplorazione (it)
• Polish: skauting (pl) m
• Portuguese: reconhecimento (pt) m
• Russian: разве́дка (ru) f (razvédka), рекогносциро́вка (ru) f (rekognosciróvka)
• Spanish: scouting m
• Turkish: izcilik (tr)
• Ukrainian: ро́звідка f (rózvidka), розві́дка f (rozvídka), рекогносциро́вка f (rekohnoscyróvka)
• Welsh: sgowtio m

the Scouting movement

• Catalan: escoltisme (ca) m
• Czech: skauting m
• Dutch: scouting (nl)
• Esperanto: skoltismo
• Finnish: partioliike (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: escoutismo m
• French: scoutisme (fr) m
• German: Pfadfinderbewegung f
• Greek: προσκοπισμός (el) m (proskopismós)
• Hebrew: תנועת הצופים f (tnuát hatsofím)
• Hindi: स्काउटिंग (skāuṭiṅg), बालचर (hi) (bālcar)
• Hungarian: cserkészet (hu)
• Italian: scoutismo (it) m
• Japanese: スカウティング (sukautingu)
• Korean: 스카우팅 (seukauting)
• Macedonian: извидништво n (izvidništvo)
• Polish: skauting (pl) m
• Portuguese: escotismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਕਾਊਟਿੰਗ (sakāūṭiṅg)
• Spanish: escultismo m, scoutismo m, escoutismo m (Spain)

activities of boy scouts and girl scouts

• Finnish: partio (fi), partiotoiminta (fi)
• Hebrew: צופיות f (tsofiyút)
• Polish: skauting (pl) m
• Portuguese: escotismo (pt) m
• Russian: ска́утинг (ru) m (skáuting), ска́утство n (skáutstvo)
• Ukrainian: ска́утінґ m (skáuting), ска́утство n (skáutstvo)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} scouting (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} skoltismo m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kepanduan (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} scautismo (it) m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} scouting (sv)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈskäwtĩn]

Noun

scouting m (plural scoutings)

1. scouting

Further reading

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “scouting”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]