training wheels

English

Noun

one of a pair of training wheels (foreground)

1. A pair of small wheels attached on either side of the rear wheel of a child's bicycle so that the bicycle is easier for the child to learn to ride.
2. (figuratively, sometimes singular as training wheel) Anything designed to make something easier for a novice.
   • 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys puts a tween spin on the R-rated teen comedy, to mostly funny effect”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     Yet as with Booksmart, the summer’s earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it’s the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one.

Synonyms

• (wheels on a bicycle): stabilisers (UK)

Translations

pair of small wheels attached to a child's bicycle

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輔助輪／辅助轮, 辅助轮 (fǔzhùlún)

• Danish: støttehjul (da) n pl
• Finnish: apupyörät pl
• French: roulettes (fr) f pl
• German: Stützräder n pl
• Hebrew: גלגלי עזר m pl (galgaléj ʕézer)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
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• Hungarian: kitámasztó pótkerék, támasztókerék, segédkerék
• Japanese: 補助輪 (ほじょりん, hojorin)
• Macedonian: по́мошни тр́кала n pl (pómošni tŕkala)
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: rodinha f
• Russian: трениро́вочные колёса n pl (treniróvočnyje koljósa)
• Spanish: ruedines (Spain), llantas de entrenamiento (Mexico), rueditas (Argentina)
• Swedish: stödhjul (sv) n