snowmobile
snowmobile noun: a vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
Noun
snowmobile (plural snowmobiles)
- A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
- 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
- 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
- Synonyms:
- skidoo, ski-doo, ski doo, snowmachine, snow-machine, snow machine, skimobile, ski-mobile, ski mobile, skimachine
Verb
snowmobile (third-person singular simple present snowmobiles, present participle snowmobiling, simple past and past participle snowmobiled)
snowmobile meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Malay
snowmobile in Hindi
- vehicle
- स्नोमोबाइल snomobāil, स्नोमशीन snomaśīn, मोटर स्लेज moṭar slej, स्कीमोबाइल skīmobāil, स्नो स्कूटर sno skūṭar
snowmobile in Tamil
- பனிநில ஊர்தி
snowmobile in Arabic
- vehicle
- زَحَّافَةُ ثَلْج zaḥḥāfatu ṯalj, زَحَّافَةُ الثَّلْج zaḥḥāfatu ṯ-ṯalj
snowmobile in Malay
- vehicle
- kereta salji
More languagesFewer languages
- snowmobile in Indonesian
- mobil salju
Synonyms of snowmobile
- skidoo
- ski-doo
- ski doo
- snowmachine
- snow-machine
- snow machine
- skimobile
- ski-mobile
- ski mobile
- skimachine
2 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- ski-machine
- ski machine
Forms of snowmobile
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | snowmobiles |
| alternative form | snow-mobile |
| alternative form | snow mobile |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | snowmobiles |
| present participle | snowmobiling |
| past participle | snowmobiled |
| past | snowmobiled |
Origin of snowmobile
From snow + -mobile.
Words formed from snowmobile
- snocross
- snowmobile climbing
- snowmobiler
- snowmobile racing
- snowmobile skipping
- snowmobiling
- snowmobilist
Questions about snowmobile
- What does snowmobile mean?
- Snowmobile means a vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.
- What is snowmobile in Hindi?
- Snowmobile in Hindi is स्नोमोबाइल (snomobāil), स्नोमशीन (snomaśīn), मोटर स्लेज (moṭar slej). See Snowmobile meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is snowmobile?
- Snowmobile can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of snowmobile?
- The plural of snowmobile is snowmobiles.
Words near snowmobile in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snowmobile (page history and authors); snowmobile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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