noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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UK:/ˈvɛl.ə.dɹəʊm/
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1
noun
Meaning 1
An indoor arena, having an oval banked track for bicycle racing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2weh1-der. Latin velox Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Italic *pets Latin pēs French vélocipède French vélo Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus Proto-Indo-European *h1éḱwos Proto-Hellenic *íkkwos Ancient Greek ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos) Proto-Indo-European *drem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos) Ancient Greek ῐ̔ππόδρομος (hĭppódromos)bor. Latin hippodromoslbor. French hippodromeder. French -drome French vélodromebor. English velodrome Borrowed from French vélodrome, from vélo + -drome. By surface analysis, velo- + -drome.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Armenian:
վելոդրոմ
(velodrom)
— arena for bicycle racing
Asturian:
velódromu
— arena for bicycle racing
Azerbaijani:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Basque:
belodromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Belarusian:
веладро́м
(vjeladróm)
— arena for bicycle racing
Bulgarian:
велодру́м
(velodrúm)
— arena for bicycle racing
Catalan:
velòdrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Czech:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Danish:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Dutch:
velodroom
— arena for bicycle racing
Dutch:
wielerbaan
— arena for bicycle racing
Esperanto:
velodromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Estonian:
velodroom
— arena for bicycle racing
Finnish:
velodromi
— arena for bicycle racing
Finnish:
pyöräilystadion
— arena for bicycle racing
French:
vélodrome
— arena for bicycle racing
Galician:
velódromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Georgian:
ველოდრომი
(velodromi)
— arena for bicycle racing
German:
Velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
German:
Radrennbahn
— arena for bicycle racing
Greek:
ποδηλατοδρόμιο
(podilatodrómio)
— arena for bicycle racing
Hebrew:
ולודרום
— arena for bicycle racing
Icelandic:
reiðhjólahöll
— arena for bicycle racing
Icelandic:
hjólreiðabraut
— arena for bicycle racing
Ido:
velodromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Indonesian:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Interlingua:
velodromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Italian:
velodromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Kazakh:
велодром
(velodrom)
— arena for bicycle racing
Kyrgyz:
велодром
(velodrom)
— arena for bicycle racing
Latvian:
velodroms
— arena for bicycle racing
Lithuanian:
velodromas
— arena for bicycle racing
Macedonian:
велодро́м
(velodróm)
— arena for bicycle racing
Norwegian Bokmål:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Norwegian Nynorsk:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Occitan:
velodròme
— arena for bicycle racing
Polish:
welodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Polish:
cyklodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Portuguese:
velódromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Romanian:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Romanian:
велодром
(velodrom)
— arena for bicycle racing
Russian:
велодро́м
(velodróm)
— arena for bicycle racing
Serbo-Croatian:
велодром
— arena for bicycle racing
Serbo-Croatian:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Slovak:
velodróm
— arena for bicycle racing
Slovene:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Spanish:
velódromo
— arena for bicycle racing
Swedish:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Swedish:
cykelbana
— arena for bicycle racing
Turkish:
veledrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Turkmen:
welodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Ukrainian:
велодро́м
(velodróm)
— arena for bicycle racing
Uzbek:
velodrom
— arena for bicycle racing
Yiddish:
וועלאָדראָם
(velodrom)
— arena for bicycle racing