velodróm

Ultimately from French vélodrome.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvelɔdroːm]
• Rhymes: -ɔdroːm
• Hyphenation: ve‧lo‧dróm

velodróm m inan (relational adjective velodrómový)

1. velodrome (a bicycle racing track with inclined curves, usually in the shape of an ellipse)
   • 2017, T.J. Millner, Peter Sagan: tourminátor (SK)‎^[1], Albatros Media Slovakia s.r.o., →ISBN, page 117:

     Ale 18. júla večer prichádza na dráhu novopostaveného velodrómu parížskeho Parku princov Maurice Garin v bielom saku, s fúzikmi pod nosom a večne nezapálenou cigaretou v kútiku úst.

     But on the evening of July 18, Maurice Garin arrives at the track of the newly built velodrome in Paris' Parc des Princes in a white jacket, with a mustache under his nose and a perpetually unlit cigarette in the corner of his mouth.

• “velodróm”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025