snowmobile
verbEtymology From snow + -mobile.
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To ride or race in a snowmobile.
snowmobile
nounEtymology From snow + -mobile.
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Transport, Vehicles A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
- 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.2001, Charles W. L. Hill, Gareth R. Jones, Strategic Management Theory: An Integrated Approach, page 312:
- 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?"2022 November 2, “Young Wisconsin Olympian Jordan Stolz talks speedskating career: 'I'm just happy I got to skate that fast'”, in TMJ4:
- 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
- Related terms
- snow bike