snowmobile

plural snowmobiles · alternative snow-mobile · alternative snow mobile

1. transportA vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.

   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

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   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

   Synonyms: skidoo, ski-doo, ski doo, Skidoo, Ski-Doo, Ski Doo, snowmachine, snow-machine

present singular third person snowmobiles · participle present snowmobiling · participle past snowmobiled · past snowmobiled · alternative snow-mobile · alternative snow mobile

1. intransitiveTo ride or race in a snowmobile.