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Etymology[edit]
Genericized trademark of Jet Ski. By surface analysis, jet + ski.
jet ski (plural jet skis)
- A small motorized watercraft with a flattish hull and an upright centre, which a rider sits astride.
- Synonyms: PWC, personal water craft, water scooter, aquabike, waverunner
- Hypernym: watercraft
2006 October, “Gimme Fuel: High Octane Advise for Buying a Ski”, in Tracks magazine, page 154:"Jet ski" is actually Kawasaki's name for their PWC (personal water craft) models, but like hoovers and speedos has become genericised.
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small motorized water craft
- Arabic: دَرَّاجَة مَائِيَّة f (darrāja māʔiyya), جِيت سْكِي m (jīt skī)
- Azerbaijani: su skuteri, su motosikleti
- Belarusian: гідрацыкл m (hidracykl), водны матацыкл m (vódny matacykl)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 水上摩托 (seoi2 soeng6 mo1 tok3)
- Mandarin: 水上摩托 (zh) (shuǐ shàng mó tuō), 水上摩托车 (zh) (shuǐ shàng mó tuō chē)
- Danish: jetski c, vandscooter c
- Dutch: jetski (nl) m
- Finnish: vesiskootteri (fi)
- French: jet ski (fr) m, motomarine (fr) f, moto aquatique f, scooter des mers (fr) m
- German: Wassermotorrad (de) n
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: אוֹפַנּוֹעַ יָם (he) m (ofanóa' yam)
- Hindi: जेट स्की (jeṭ skī)
- Italian: moto d'acqua f, acquascooter (it) m, (uncommon) scooter acquatico m
- Japanese: ジェットスキー (ja) (jettosukī)
- Korean: 제트 스키 (jeteu seuki)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannscooter m
- Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: skuter wodny m
- Portuguese: jetski (pt) m
- Russian: гидроци́кл (ru) m (gidrocíkl), водный мотоцикл (ru) m (vodnyj motocikl)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: jet ski m, moto de agua f
- Swedish: vattenskoter (sv)
- Turkish: deniz motosikleti sg, deniz motoru (tr), su kızağı
- Ukrainian: скутер m (skuter)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
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jet ski (third-person singular simple present jet skis, present participle jet skiing, simple past and past participle jet skied)
- To ride on a jet ski.
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