sprint

See also: šprint and Sprint

English

Alternative forms

• sprunt (dialectal)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɹɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

sprint (plural sprints)

1. A short race at top speed.
2. A burst of speed or activity.
3. (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.

Descendants

• → Catalan: esprint
• → Czech: sprint
• → Dutch: sprint
• → French: sprint
• → German: Sprint
  • → Serbo-Croatian: šprint
• → Greek: σπριντ (sprint)
• → Italian: sprint
• → Japanese: スプリント (supurinto)
• → Korean: 스프린트 (seupeurinteu)
• → Polish: sprint
• → Portuguese: sprint, ⇒ sprintar
• → Russian: спринт (sprint)
• → Serbo-Croatian: sprȉnt, спри̏нт
• → Spanish: esprint, sprint

Translations

short race at top speed

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: спринт (sprint)
• Catalan: esprint m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短跑 (zh) (duǎnpǎo), 衝刺 / 冲刺 (zh) (chōngcì)

• Czech: sprint (cs) m
• Dutch: sprint (nl) m
• Finnish: pikajuoksu (fi), pikamatka (fi)
• French: sprint (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kurzstreckenlauf m, Sprint (de) m
• Greek: σπριντ (el) n (sprint)
• Hebrew: מאוץ m (maóts), ריצה מהירה f (ritsá mehirá), ספרינט m (sprint)
• Indonesian: sprint (id), lari cepat (id)
• Irish: ráib f, rúid f, ruthag m, aga reatha m
• Italian: velocità (it) f, sprint (it) m
• Japanese: スプリント (ja) (supurinto), 短距離走 (ja) (たんきょりそう, tankyorisō)
• Korean: 스프린트 (seupeurinteu)
• Macedonian: спринт m (sprint)
• Malay: lari pecut (ms)
• Polish: sprint (pl) m
• Portuguese: sprint (pt) m, esprinte (pt) m
• Romanian: sprint (ro) n
• Russian: спринт (ru) m (sprint) (бег на коро́ткую диста́нцию)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спри̏нт m

  Roman: sprȉnt (sh) m

• Slovak: šprint m
• Spanish: sprint (es) m, esprint (es) m
• Swedish: sprinterlopp
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: chạy nước rút
• Walloon: sprine (wa) m

burst of speed or activity

• Czech: sprint (cs) m, spurt m
• Finnish: pyrähdys (fi)
• German: Spurt (de) m
• Italian: attività (it) f
• Macedonian: спринт m (sprint)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spurt (no) m

  Nynorsk: spurt m

• Polish: sprint (pl) m
• Portuguese: sprint (pt) m
• Romanian: sprint (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спри̏нт m

  Roman: sprȉnt (sh) m

• Slovak: šprint m, špurt m
• Spanish: sprint (es) m, esprint (es) m

Verb

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp.

Translations

To run etc at top speed for a short period

• Bulgarian: спринтирам (sprintiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短跑 (zh) (duǎnpǎo), 衝刺 / 冲刺 (zh) (chōngcì), 疾跑

• Czech: sprintovat
• Danish: sprinte (da), spæne
• Esperanto: kuregi
• Finnish: pinkaista (fi), pyrähtää (fi)
• German: spurten (de)
• Greek: τρέχω (el) (trécho)
• Macedonian: спри́нтува (spríntuva), тр́ча (tŕča)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spurte (no)

  Nynorsk: spurte

• Polish: biec sprintem (about running)
• Portuguese: sprintar (pt)
• Romanian: sprinta (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: sprintati (sh)
• Slovak: šprintovať, špurtovať
• Spanish: esprintar (es)
• Swedish: sprinta (sv), spurta (sv)
• Walloon: sprinter (wa)

Derived terms

from all parts of speech

• canoe sprint
• hollow sprint
• kayak sprint
• sprintable
• sprint car
• sprinter
• sprint finish
• sprintless
• wind sprint

 

Anagrams

• intprs., prints

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

sprint m inan

1. sprint

Declension

Declension of sprint (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	sprint	sprinty
genitive	sprintu	sprintů
dative	sprintu	sprintům
accusative	sprint	sprinty
vocative	sprinte	sprinty
locative	sprintu	sprintech
instrumental	sprintem	sprinty

Related terms

• sprinter m
• sprintovat

 

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprɪnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sprint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)

1. sprint

Derived terms

• eindsprint
• massasprint
• sprinten

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spʁint/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint, short top-speed race

Further reading

• “sprint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

sprint

1. singular imperative of sprinten

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprɪn(t)/

Noun

sprint (plural sprint-sprint)

1. (sports) sprint: a short race at top speed.

   Synonym: lari cepat

Derived terms

• antarsprint

 

Further reading

• “sprint” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprint/
• Rhymes: -int
• Hyphenation: sprìnt

Noun

sprint m (invariable)

1. sprint (short, fast race)

   sprint finale ― final sprint

2. vivacity, brio

Noun

sprint f (invariable)

1. (automotive) a car having strong acceleration

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint, from Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of *sprintaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ-, from *sper-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprint/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -int
• Syllabification: sprint

Noun

sprint m inan

1. (athletics) sprint (short race at top speed)
2. sprint (burst of speed or activity)

Declension

Declension of sprint

	singular	plural
nominative	sprint	sprinty
genitive	sprintu	sprintów
dative	sprintowi	sprintom
accusative	sprint	sprinty
instrumental	sprintem	sprintami
locative	sprincie	sprintach
vocative	sprincie	sprinty

Related terms

adjective

• sprinterski

 

nouns

• sprinter
• sprinterka

 

Further reading

• sprint in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sprint in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈspɾĩ.tɨ/

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint (short race at top speed)
2. sprint (burst of speed or activity)

Related terms

• sprintar
• sprinter

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sprint.

Noun

sprint n (plural sprinturi)

1. sprint

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sprint	sprintul		sprinturi	sprinturile
genitive-dative	sprint	sprintului		sprinturi	sprinturilor
vocative	sprintule			sprinturilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

sprȉnt m (Cyrillic spelling спри̏нт)

1. sprint

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈpɾint/ [esˈpɾĩn̪t̪]
• Rhymes: -int

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. Alternative spelling of esprint

Further reading

• “sprint”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

sprint c

1. a small (metal) pin (in a lock, grenade, fire extinguisher or the like)

   dra ur sprinten

   pull out the pin

2. a sprint (short race)

Declension

Declension of sprint

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sprint	sprints
	definite	sprinten	sprintens
plural	indefinite	sprintar	sprintars
	definite	sprintarna	sprintarnas

References

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