skoter

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English scooter.

Noun

skoter c

1. a snowmobile

   Synonym: snöskoter

   I Norrland tycker många om att åka skoter

   In Norrland, many people enjoy driving snowmobiles

2. a motor scooter (small motorcycle or moped with a step-through frame)

   Synonyms: scooter, (genericized trademark) vespa

3. a water scooter (jet ski)

   Synonym: vattenskoter

4. a mobility scooter

   Synonyms: permobil, elskoter

Usage notes

• Particularly during winter, an unqualified skoter would commonly be understood as a snowmobile.
• Elskoter might also be encountered as a synonym for a motorized scooter (elsparkcykel).

Declension

Declension of skoter

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	skoter	skoters
	definite	skotern	skoterns
plural	indefinite	skotrar	skotrars
	definite	skotrarna	skotrarnas

Derived terms

• skoterled (“snowmobile trail”)

References

• skoter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skoter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skoter in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)