scoot·er (sk  t r)n. 1. A child's vehicle consisting of a long footboard between two small end wheels, controlled by an upright steering handle attached to the front wheel. 2. A motor scooter. 3. A flatbottom sailboat with runners that can skim over water or ice. |
scooter [ˈskuːtə]
n
1. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a child's vehicle consisting of a low footboard on wheels, steered by handlebars. It is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground
2. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) See motor scooter
3. (Individual Sports, other than specified) (in the US and Canada) another term for ice yacht
scooterist n
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| Noun | 1. |  scooter - a motorboat resembling a motor scooter |
| 2. | scooter - child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot wheeled vehicle - a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC" | |
| 3. |  scooter - a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheelwheeled vehicle - a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC" | |
| 4. |  scooter - a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over icevessel, watercraft - a craft designed for water transportation | |
| 5. |  scooter - large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemispheresea duck - any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider; scoter; merganser genus Melanitta, Melanitta - scoters common scoter, Melanitta nigra - a variety of scoter |
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