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Noun: scooter  skoo-tu(r)
  1. A wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered petrol engine geared to the rear wheel
    - motor scooter
     
  2. A motorboat resembling a motor scooter
    - water scooter, sea scooter
     
  3. Child's two-wheeled vehicle operated by foot
     
  4. A sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for travelling over ice
    - iceboat, ice yacht
     
  5. Large black diving duck of northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere
    - scoter

Derived forms: scooters

Type of: motorboat, powerboat, sea duck, vessel, watercraft, wheeled vehicle

Part of: genus Melanitta, Melanitta

Encyclopedia: Scooter