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English
A kick scooter (#1)
Two e-scooters (#2)
A motor scooter (#3)
A three-wheeled mobility vehicle (#4)
Etymology
From scoot + -er .
Pronunciation
Noun
scooter (plural scooters )
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.
An electric version of the kick scooter .
Synonyms: e-scooter , motorized scooter
A motorscooter ; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.
A mobility scooter ; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled and/or elderly people.
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 .
Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta ; the scoter .
A scooter skirt (skort ), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.
2017 , Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017 , page 6:Bow Pocket Scooter [ …] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, [ …]
2021 , French Toast Catalog 2022 , page 10 :With thoughtful details like shorts hidden under scooters , wrinkle-resistant, moisture-wicking fabrics, power knees and strength, stretch, and adjustability exactly where growing kids need it most, [ …]
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Translations
electric version of the kick scooter
type of motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame
— see also motor scooter
Arabic: سْكُوتَر m ( skūtar ) , بِسْكِلِيتَّة f ( biskilitta )
Armenian: մոտոռոլլեր (hy) ( motoṙoller ) , սկուտեր (hy) ( skuter )
Belarusian: мотаро́лер m ( motaróljer ) , ску́тэр m ( skúter )
Bengali: স্কুটার (bn) ( skuṭar )
Bulgarian: мопед m ( moped )
Catalan: escúter m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 速克達 / 速克达 ( sùkèdá ) , 機車 / 机车 (zh) ( jīchē )
Czech: skútr (cs)
Danish: scooter (da) c
Dutch: scooter (nl) m
Esperanto: skotero
Estonian: motoroller , skuuter
Finnish: skootteri (fi)
French: scooter (fr) m
Georgian: მოტოროლერი ( moṭoroleri ) , სკუტერი ( sḳuṭeri )
German: Motorroller (de) m
Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (el) n ( motopodílato ) , σκούτερ (el) n ( skoúter )
Hebrew: קַטְנוֹעַ (he) m ( katnóa ) , טוּסְטוּס m ( tústus )
Hindi: स्कूटर ( skūṭar )
Hungarian: robogó (hu) , motoroller
Icelandic: vespa (is) f
Indonesian: skuter (id)
Irish: scútar m
Italian: scooter (it)
Japanese: スクーター (ja) ( sukūtā )
Kazakh: мотороллер ( motoroller )
Khmer: ម៉ូតូ ( moutou )
Korean: 스쿠터 ( seukuteo )
Lao: ລົດຈັກ (lo) ( lot chak )
Latvian: motorollers (lv) m
Lingala: mobilette
Lithuanian: motoroleris m
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: ску̏тер m
Roman: skȕter (sh) m
Slovak: skúter m
Slovene: skuter m , vespa f
Spanish: scooter m , motoneta (es) f , vespa (es) f , escúter (es) m or f
Swedish: moped (sv) c , skoter (sv) c
Thai: สกู๊ตเตอร์ ( sà-gúut-dtə̂ə )
Turkish: scooter
Ukrainian: моторо́лер m ( motoróler ) , ску́тер m ( skúter )
Vietnamese: xe xcutơ
large black duck of the genus
Melanitta — see scoter
See also
Verb
scooter (third-person singular simple present scooters , present participle scootering , simple past and past participle scootered )
( intransitive ) To ride on a scooter .
2005 October 24, “Love Those Boomers”, in Business Week :But execs at parent company Piaggio noticed something odd as they scootered back and forth to their Manhattan offices [ …]
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English scooter .
Pronunciation
Noun
scooter
scooter m (plural scooters , diminutive scootertje n )
motor scooter
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from English scooter .
Pronunciation
Noun
scooter m (plural scooters )
scooter (motor-powered bicycle, sailing vessel)
Further reading
Italian
Uno scooter – A scooter
Etymology
Borrowed from English scooter .
Pronunciation
Noun
scooter m (invariable )
( vehicles ) scooter , specifically :
( nautical ) a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht , designed to travel over ice
motor scooter
Short for acquascooter ; water scooter
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English scooter .
Noun
scooter m (definite singular scooteren , indefinite plural scootere , definite plural scooterne )
a scooter ( type of motorcycle )
short for snøscooter , vannscooter .
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English scooter .
Noun
scooter m (definite singular scooteren , indefinite plural scooterar , definite plural scooterane )
a scooter ( type of motorcycle )
short for snøscooter , vasscooter etc. .
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
scooter m (plural scooters or # )
scooter ( vehicle )
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
scooter c
a motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame)
Synonyms: vespa , ( when clear from context ) skoter
( chiefly in some compounds ) scooter
Synonym: ( much more common with the exception of elscooter ) skoter
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