go-cart

(gō′kärt′)

1. A small wagon for children to ride in, drive, or pull.

2. also go-kart (-kärt′) See kart.

3. A small frame on casters designed to help support a child learning to walk.

4. A handcart.

5. A stroller.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

go-cart

1. chiefly US and Canadian a small wagon for young children to ride in or pull

2. chiefly US and Canadian a light frame on casters or wheels that supports a baby learning to walk. Brit word: baby-walker

3. (Motor Racing) motor racing See kart

4. (Automotive Engineering) another word for handcart

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

go′-cart`

1. a small carriage for wheeling young children; stroller.

2. a small, wheeled framework in which children learn to walk; walker.

3. handcart.

4. kart.

[1680–90]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	go-cart - an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk baby-walker, walker framework - a structure supporting or containing something
	2.	go-cart - wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries" handcart, pushcart, cart applecart - a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow, barrow - a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels handgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip" hand truck, truck - a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects laundry cart - handcart for moving a load of laundry serving cart - a handcart for serving food shopping cart - a handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping 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.	go-cart - a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around perambulator, pram, pushchair, baby buggy, baby carriage, stroller, carriage, pusher bassinet - a perambulator that resembles a bassinet 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"

Translations

go-cart

[ˈgəʊkɑːt] N → cochecito m de niño

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

go-cart

n (= child’s cart) → Seifenkiste f; (Sport: = kart) → Gokart m; (US: = walker) → Laufstuhl m; (= pushchair) → Sportwagen m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

go-cart

[ˈgəʊˌkɑːt] n → go-kart m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Take your thumb out of your mouth and come to ride with Becky in your go-cart." She stretched out her strong young arms to the crowing baby, sat down in a chair with the child, turned her upside down unceremoniously, took from her waistband and scornfully flung away a crooked pin, walked with her (still in a highly reversed position) to the bureau, selected a large safety pin, and proceeded to attach her brief red flannel petticoat to a sort of shirt that she wore.

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When he had got a light he saw that she had taken away all her things and the baby's (he had noticed on entering that the go-cart was not in its usual place on the landing, but thought Mildred had taken the baby out;) and all the things on the washing-stand had been broken, a knife had been drawn cross-ways through the seats of the two chairs, the pillow had been slit open, there were large gashes in the sheets and the counterpane, the looking-glass appeared to have been broken with a hammer.

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Princes (there are more Princes than policemen in Naples--the city is infested with them)--Princes who live up seven flights of stairs and don't own any principalities, will keep a carriage and go hungry; and clerks, mechanics, milliners and strumpets will go without their dinners and squander the money on a hack-ride in the Chiaja; the rag-tag and rubbish of the city stack themselves up, to the number of twenty or thirty, on a rickety little go-cart hauled by a donkey not much bigger than a cat, and they drive in the Chiaja; Dukes and bankers, in sumptuous carriages and with gorgeous drivers and footmen, turn out, also, and so the furious procession goes.

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This was the more noticeable because Royce walked always with a sort of powerful stoop, and seemed to be going about his small clerical and domestic duties in a heavy and humbled style, like a buffalo drawing a go-cart.

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Omer, 'when a man is drawing on to a time of life, where the two ends of life meet; when he finds himself, however hearty he is, being wheeled about for the second time, in a speeches of go-cart; he should be over-rejoiced to do a kindness if he can.

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Paige Armstrong had initial concerns about driving the go-cart. She explains, "I didn't want to drive the go-cart because I don't know if it's safe.

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But within seconds, he is gone, a tiny red dot in the distance, even though I have pressed the accelerator to the floor and am barely hanging on to my go-cart at the corners.

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