Meanings
plural zebra crossings
- CommonwealthIrelandUKA pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.
Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing. Dismount and wheel your cycle across.
2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 163 more examples
'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 6, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 50They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals. They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for. Free funerals.
2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Random House, →ISBN, →OL, Ch. 1The Abbey Road zebra crossing in north London — made famous after appearing on a Beatles album cover — has been given Grade II listed status.
2010 December 22, “Beatles' Abbey Road zebra crossing given listed status”, in BBC News
Synonyms & antonyms
nounstreet crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
zebra + crossing From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَمَرُّ الرَّاجِلِين
- مَمَرُّ الرَّاجِلِين (mamarru r-rājilīn)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Catalan pas zebra, pas de zebra
- pas zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- pas de zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Chinese Cantonese 斑馬線 /斑马线
- 斑馬線 /斑马线 (baan¹ maa⁵ sin³)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Chinese Mandarin 斑馬線 /斑马线
- 斑馬線 /斑马线 (bānmǎxiàn)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Czech zebra, přechod pro chodce
- zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- přechod pro chodcepedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Danish fodgængerovergang, fodgængerfelt
- fodgængerovergangpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- fodgængerfeltpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Dutch zebrapad
- zebrapadpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Esperanto stripasejo, zebrostria pasejo
- stripasejopedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- zebrostria pasejopedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Finnish suojatie
- suojatiepedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
French passage pour piétons, passage piéton
- passage pour piétonspedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- passage piétonpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- passage cloutépedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
German Zebrastreifen, Fußgängerüberweg
- Zebrastreifenpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- Fußgängerüberwegpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Hungarian zebra
- zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Icelandic sebrabraut
- sebrabrautpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Indonesian zebra cross
- zebra crosspedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Irish trasrian síogach, bealach trasna
- trasrian síogachpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- bealach trasnapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Italian strisce pedonali, attraversamento zebrato
- strisce pedonalipedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- attraversamento zebratopedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Japanese 横断歩道
- 横断歩道 (ōdan hodō)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Korean 횡단보도
- 횡단보도 (hoengdanbodo)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Malay lintasan zebra
- lintasan zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Norwegian Bokmål fotgjengerfelt, fotgjengerovergang
- fotgjengerfeltpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- fotgjengerovergangpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- gangfeltpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Polish zebra
- zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Portuguese passadeira, zebra
- passadeirapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- faixa de pedestrespedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- faixapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Romanian trecere de pietoni, zebră
- trecere de pietonipedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- zebrăpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Russian пешехо́дный перехо́д, полоса́тый перехо́д
- пешехо́дный перехо́д (pešexódnyj perexód)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- полоса́тый перехо́д (polosátyj perexód)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- зе́бра (zébra)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- зе́бра перехо́д (zébra perexód)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Slovak zebra, priechod pre chodcov
- zebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- priechod pre chodcovpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Spanish paso de cebra, cebra peatonal
- paso de cebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- cebra peatonalpedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
- cebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Swahili kivuko milia
- kivuko miliapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Swedish övergångsställe
- övergångsställepedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Thai ทางม้าลาย
- ทางม้าลาย (taang máa laai)pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Turkish yaya geçidi
- yaya geçidipedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Welsh croesfan sebra
- croesfan sebrapedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
Cite this entry
zebra crossing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zebra%20crossing
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