scooter

From scoot +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskuːtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

scooter (plural scooters)

1. 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.
2. An electric version of the kick scooter.

   Synonyms: e-scooter, motorized scooter

3. A motorscooter; a small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame.
4. A mobility scooter; an electric-powered scooter specially designed for disabled or elderly people.
5. 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.
7. (nautical, underwater diving, military) Synonym of diver propulsion vehicle.

   Synonyms: water scooter, DPV

8. Any of the large, black ducks of the genus Melanitta; the scoter.
9. A scooter skirt (skort), especially when worn by girls as part of a school uniform.
   • 2017, Classroom Uniforms Catalog 2017‎^[1], page 6:

     Bow Pocket Scooter […] Pull-on twill scooter with three-pleat front, […]

   • 2021, French Toast Catalog 2022‎^[2], 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, […]

• → Bengali: স্কুটার (skuṭar)
• → Catalan: escúter
• → Czech: skútr
• → Danish: scooter
• → Dutch: scooter
• → Finnish: skootteri
• → French: scooter
• → German: Scooter
• → Italian: scooter
• → Japanese: スクーター (sukūtā)
• → Korean: 스쿠터 (seukuteo)
• → Malay: skuter
• → Norwegian Bokmål: scooter
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: scooter
• → Polish: skuter
• → Portuguese: scooter
• → Romanian: scuter
• → Spanish: escúter; scooter
• → Swedish: skoter

• moped

scooter (third-person singular simple present scooters, present participle scootering, simple past and past participle scootered)

1. (intransitive) To ride on a scooter.

   Synonym: scoot

   • 2005 October 24, “Love Those Boomers”, in Business Week‎^[3]:

     But execs at parent company Piaggio noticed something odd as they scootered back and forth to their Manhattan offices […]

• scootering

• Cooters, cooters

Borrowed from English scooter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsku.tər/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utər

scooter m (plural scooters, diminutive scootertje n)

1. motor scooter

• motorfiets

Borrowed from English scooter.

• IPA^(key): /sku.tœʁ/

• Audio:

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scooter m (plural scooters)

1. scooter (motor-powered bicycle, sailing vessel)

• “scooter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English scooter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsku.ter/^[1]
• Rhymes: -uter
• Hyphenation: scoo‧ter

scooter m (invariable)

1. (vehicles) scooter, specifically:
2. (nautical) a type of flat-bottomed, buoyant ice yacht, designed to travel over ice
   1. motor scooter
   2. ellipsis of acquascooter; water scooter

• acquascooter
• scooterista

• costerò, cretoso, estorco, scoterò

From English scooter.

scooter m (definite singular scooteren, indefinite plural scootere, definite plural scooterne)

1. a scooter (type of motorcycle)
2. ellipsis of snøscooter or vannscooter

• skuter

• snøscooter
• vannscooter

• “scooter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “scooter” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English scooter.

scooter m (definite singular scooteren, indefinite plural scooterar, definite plural scooterane)

1. a scooter (type of motorcycle)
2. ellipsis of snøscooter, vasscooter, or etc.

• skuter

• snøscooter
• vasscooter, vass-scooter

• “scooter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskuteɾ/ [ˈsku.t̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uteɾ
• IPA^(key): /esˈkuteɾ/ [esˈku.t̪eɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uteɾ

scooter m or f same meaning (plural scooters or scooter)

1. scooter (vehicle)

• “scooter”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “scooter”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

scooter c

1. a motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame)

   Synonyms: vespa, (when clear from context) skoter

2. (chiefly in some compounds) scooter

   Synonym: (much more common with the exception of elscooter) skoter

• scooter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• scooter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)