A scooter is a small vehicle with two or more wheels that you stand or sit on and move by pushing with your foot or using a motor.
From the verb “scoot” meaning “to move quickly,” likely from a dialect word meaning “to slide” or “glide.” The “-er” ending turns it into “a thing that scoots.”
Modern electric scooters are part toy, part transportation, turning sidewalks into mini traffic systems. A playful word like “scooter” now sits in serious conversations about city design and climate change.
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