Scooter
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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
- Square scooter, a square board with a swivel caster at each corner
Motorized
- Scooter (motorcycle), with a step-through frame and a platform for the rider's feet
- Mobility scooter, a wheelchair with a motor
- Motorized scooter, a standing kick scooter with a motor
- Electric kick scooter, a small platform with two or more wheels that is propelled by an electric motor
- Self-balancing scooter, a type of portable, rechargeable battery-powered scooter
Air
- Ace Scooter, an American aircraft that was designed for homebuilt construction
- Air scooter, a theoretical ultralight helicopter designed by the AirScooter Corporation
- "Scooter", one of the nicknames for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a ground-attack aircraft
- Sopwith Scooter, an unarmed parasol monoplane derivative of the Sopwith Camel
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
Media
Books and Magazines
- Scooter, a novel by Mick Foley
- Swing with Scooter, a DC Comics comicbook published in the late 1960s
Fictional characters
- Scooter: Coronation Street, Hiren "Scooter" Makuna, a boyfriend of Sarah-Louise Platt
- Scooter: Fox Sports, 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: 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, Lily Aldrin's old high-school boyfriend
- Scooter: The Muppet Show, the Muppets' backstage stage manager, utility stage crew member, and general all-around "gofer"
- Scooter: Scrubs, a nickname for the character Jonathan Michael "J.D." Dorian
- Scooter: Secret Agent, a children's television program named after the title character
- Scooter: SpongeBob SquarePants, a parrotfish who enjoys surfing
Games
- Freestyle Scooter, an extreme sports game for various video game consoles developed by Crave Entertainment
- Scooter Shooter, a horizontal-scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Konami
Music
- Bad Motor Scooter, a Sammy Hagar penned track by the band Montrose
- Silver Scooter / Cursive, a 1998 split EP by the bands Silver Scooter and Cursive
- Scooter (band), a German dance and trance group band.
- Scooter (Belgian band), a pop group
Nature
Animals
- 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
Astromony
- The Scooter (Neptune), a storm on Neptune
People
- Scooter Berry (born 1986), professional football player
- Scooter Braun or Brown (born 1981), American talent manager, businessman, and promoter
- Lloyd L. Burke (1924–1999), U.S. Army soldier, nicknamed "Scooter"
- Scooter Gennett (born 1990), American baseball player
- Scooter Libby (born 1950), former adviser to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
- Scooter Magruder (born 1988), American YouTube personality, actor, comedian, and new media consultant
- Scooter McCray (born 1960), retired American professional basketball player
- Ray (Scooter) McLean (1915-1964), football player and coach
- Scooter Molander (born 1966), American football player
- Phil Rizzuto (1917–2007), nickname of New York Yankees shortstop
- Scooter Smith, (born 1980), Canadian former professional ice hockey player
- Eddie "Scooter" Tucker (born 1966), American former Major League Baseball catcher
- Scooter Ward (born 1970), American musician, lead singer of the rock band Cold
- Young Scooter, the stage name of 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
- List of scooter manufacturers
- Scootering (disambiguation)
- Scooter Boy, one of several scooter-related subcultures
- Scooter Girl (disambiguation)