snowmobile

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English

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Etymology

From snow +‎ -mobile.

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Noun

snowmobile (plural snowmobiles)

  1. (vehicles) A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
    • 2001, Charles W. L. Hill, Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, page 312:
      From the manufacture of snowgoing equipment such as snow cats, it diversified first into that of snowmobiles (and later skidoos, or water scooters), then into railcar and locomotive manufacture, and finally into the manufacture of small (less than 100-seat) commercial aircraft.
    • 2022 February 11, “Young Wisconsin Olympian Jordan Stolz talks speedskating career: 'I'm just happy I got to skate that fast'”, in TMJ4:
      Lance Allan: "When you first saw that video of you in a snowmobile suit at five years old on national TV and on our air. Were you a little bit like, c'mon Mom and Dad, are you going to do me like that?"

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Verb

snowmobile (third-person singular simple present snowmobiles, present participle snowmobiling, simple past and past participle snowmobiled)

  1. (intransitive) To ride or race in a snowmobile.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English snowmobile.

Noun

snowmobile m (plural snowmobiles)

  1. snowmobile (vehicle with skis and rubber tracks for travelling over snow)
    Synonym: motoneve