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velodrome

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈvɛl.ə.dɹəʊm/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: V EH2 L OW0 D R OW1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: racetrack, racecourse, raceway, track

History

Etymology

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