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Scooter
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scooter: see motorcycle motorcycle, motor vehicle whose design is based on the bicycle. The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The motorcycle did not become dependable and popular, however, until after 1900.
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scooter
1. a child's vehicle consisting of a low footboard on wheels, steered by handlebars. It is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground
3. (in the US and Canada) another term for ice yacht

Scooter 

a single-place racing boat with an outboard internal-combustion engine. It has a triangular or rectangular shape in horizontal section and a flat bottom with a step, so that the hull planes when in motion. In calm water a scooter develops speeds of 80 km/hr or more.



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An inquest into his death was opened and adjourned yesterday Two 17-year-old males from Saltburn and a 23-year-old man from Beverley, East Yorkshire were arrested and remain on police bail after a collision involving three motor scooters and Mr Benn's motorbike.
But what many people do not realize is that motor scooters are classified as motor vehicles when it comes to highway regulations.
There were a lot of motor scooters there to pay their last tribute to their fellow scooterist.
 
 
 
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