snowmobile

English

Alternative forms

• snow-mobile, snow mobile

Etymology

From snow +‎ -mobile.

Pronunciation

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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^[1]:

     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?"

Synonyms

• skidoo, ski-doo, ski doo, Skidoo, Ski-Doo, Ski Doo
• snowmachine, snow-machine, snow machine
• skimobile, ski-mobile, ski mobile
• skimachine, ski-machine, ski machine

Derived terms

• snocross
• snowmobile climbing
• snowmobiler
• snowmobile racing
• snowmobile skipping
• snowmobiling
• snowmobilist

 

Translations

vehicle

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪上摩托車／雪上摩托车 (xuěshàng mótuōchē), 雪地摩托車／雪地摩托车 (xuědì mótuōchē)

• Czech: sněžný skútr m
• Danish: snescooter (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwscooter (nl) m
• Esperanto: motorsledo
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: moottorikelkka (fi)
• French: motoneige (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schneemobil (de) n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: vélsleði m
• Inari Sami: moottorkiälkká
• Italian: gatto delle nevi m, motoslitta (it) f
• Japanese: スノーモービル (ja) (sunōmōbiru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: sniego rogės f pl, sniegaeigis m, sniego motociklas m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: muohtaskuhter, muohtaskohter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snøscooter m, scooter m, snøskuter m, skuter m

  Nynorsk: snøscooter m, scooter m, snøskuter m, skuter m

• Polish: skuter śnieżny m, motor śnieżny m
• Portuguese: motoneve f, snowmobile (pt) m, mota de neve f
• Romanian: snowmobil n
• Russian: снегохо́д (ru) m (snegoxód)
• Skolt Sami: motorǩeâlkk
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Southern Sami: lopmedoenehke
• Spanish: motonieve f
• Swedish: snöskoter (sv) c, skoter (sv) c
• Tibetan: གངས་ཤུར་མོ་ཊ (gangs shur mo ṭa)
• Turkish: karmobil, kar motosikleti

See also

• snow bike

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.

Translations

to ride in a snowmobile

• Finnish: moottorikelkkailla, kelkkailla

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