pika- (“quick, fast, express”) + matka (“distance”)
pikamatka
What is regarded as pikamatka depends very much on sport. In running it's anything less than 500 meters, whereas in cross-country skiing men's 15 kilometers is traditionally referred to as pikamatka. Since roughly year 2000 the organizers of skiing events have developed more audience-friendly, short-distance races called "sprint" in English, which are called sprintti or sprinttikisa in Finnish.
| Inflection of pikamatka (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pikamatka | pikamatkat | |
| genitive | pikamatkan | pikamatkojen | |
| partitive | pikamatkaa | pikamatkoja | |
| illative | pikamatkaan | pikamatkoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pikamatka | pikamatkat | |
| accusative | nom. | pikamatka | pikamatkat |
| gen. | pikamatkan | ||
| genitive | pikamatkan | pikamatkojen pikamatkain rare | |
| partitive | pikamatkaa | pikamatkoja | |
| inessive | pikamatkassa | pikamatkoissa | |
| elative | pikamatkasta | pikamatkoista | |
| illative | pikamatkaan | pikamatkoihin | |
| adessive | pikamatkalla | pikamatkoilla | |
| ablative | pikamatkalta | pikamatkoilta | |
| allative | pikamatkalle | pikamatkoille | |
| essive | pikamatkana | pikamatkoina | |
| translative | pikamatkaksi | pikamatkoiksi | |
| abessive | pikamatkatta | pikamatkoitta | |
| instructive | — | pikamatkoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||