Scooter facts for kids
Scooter may refer to:
Vehicles
Ground
Human or gravity powered
- Eccentric-hub scooter, propelled by a standing rider making a bouncing motion
- Kick scooter, propelled by a standing rider pushing off the ground
- Knee scooter, a mobility device used as an alternative to the traditional crutch
Motorized land vehicles
- Scooter (motorcycle), a motorcycle with a step-through frame and a platform for the rider's feet, ridden seated
- Mobility scooter, a wheelchair with a motor
- Motorized scooter, a powered vehicle similar in shape to a kick scooter, ridden standing up
- Self-balancing scooter, a compact self-balancing dicycle with electric motor, ridden standing up
Air
- "Scooter", one of the nicknames for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a ground-attack aircraft
- Ace Scooter, an American aircraft that was designed for homebuilt construction
- Air scooter, a theoretical ultralight helicopter designed by the AirScooter Corporation
- Sopwith Scooter, an unarmed parasol monoplane derivative of the Sopwith Camel
- SCOOTER, the callsign for the airline Scoot
Water
- Bay scooter or ice scooter, a vehicle for quick travel across water, ice or snow
- Diving scooter, an item of diving equipment used by scuba and rebreather divers to increase range underwater
- Water scooter, a recreational watercraft
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Scooter (Borderlands), a mechanic and the caretaker of the Catch-A-Ride system on Pandora
- Scooter (Coronation Street), Hiren "Scooter" Makuna, a boyfriend of Sarah-Louise Platt
- Scooter (Gobots), a fictional character in the Gobots toyline who transformed into a motor scooter, and was the Guardians’ resident inventor
- Scooter (How I Met Your Mother character), Lily Aldrin's old high-school boyfriend
- Scooter (Muppet), the Muppets' backstage stage manager, utility stage crew member, and general all-around "gofer"
- Scooter (SpongeBob SquarePants), a purple fish who enjoys surfing
- Scooter (talking baseball), an animated character used by Fox Sports during Major League Baseball games to explain different types of pitches with the education of children in mind
- Scooter, the protagonist of Swing with Scooter, a DC Comics comic book published in the late 1960s
- J.D. (Scrubs), nicknamed Scooter, the character Jonathan Michael "J.D." Dorian
- Scooter, a clumsy boy by Lucas Grabeel in Disney's 2008 film College Road Trip
- Scooter McNutty, a squirrel from Barney & Friends
- Scooter Carrot, a Scottish carrot from VeggieTales
Music
- Scooter (Belgian band), a pop group
- Scooter (band), a German dance and trance group
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Scooter, a novel by Mick Foley
- Scooter: Secret Agent, a children's television program named after the title character
Science
- Scooter (bird), the scoter, a groups of stocky seaducks in the genus Melanitta
- Water scooters, Gerridae a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera
- The Scooter (Neptune), a storm on Neptune
People
- Scooter (nickname)
- Young Scooter, stage name of American rapper Edward Bailey (born 1986)
Other uses
- Scooter (skirt), a pair of shorts with a fabric panel resembling a skirt covering the front
- Scooter pie, a confection which consists of two round graham cracker cookies, with marshmallow filling in the center, dipped in a flavored coating
See also
In Spanish: Scooter para niños
- List of motor scooter manufacturers and brands
- Scooter Girl (disambiguation)
- Scooterboy, one of several scooter-related subcultures
- Scootering (disambiguation)
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