Phrase guide

zebra crossing

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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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈzɛbɹə ˌkɹɔsɪŋ/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes painted parallel to the street.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pedestrian crossing

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: crossing, crosswalk, crossover

Narrower terms: pelican crossing, school crossing

History

Etymology

zebra + crossing From the similarity of the stripes to those of a zebra.

Across languages

Translations

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مَمَرُّ الرَّاجِلِين (mamarru r-rājilīn) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Armenian: անցում (ancʻum) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Armenian: զեբր (zebr) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Catalan: pas zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Catalan: pas de zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Chinese Cantonese: 斑馬線 /斑马线 (baan1 maa5 sin3) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Chinese: 斑馬線 /斑马线 (zh-min-nan) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 斑馬線 /斑马线 (bānmǎxiàn) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Cornish: treusva labol — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Czech: zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Czech: přechod pro chodce — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Danish: fodgængerovergang — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Danish: fodgængerfelt — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Dutch: zebrapad — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Esperanto: stripasejo — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Esperanto: zebrostria pasejo — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Finnish: suojatie — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • French: passage pour piétons — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • French: passage piéton — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • French: passage clouté — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • German: Zebrastreifen — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • German: Fußgängerüberweg — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Hungarian: zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Icelandic: sebrabraut — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Indonesian: zebra cross — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Irish: trasrian síogach — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Irish: bealach trasna — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Italian: strisce pedonali — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Italian: attraversamento zebrato — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Japanese: 横断歩道 (ōdan hodō) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Kazakh: жаяу өткел (jaäu ötkel) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Korean: 횡단보도 (hoengdanbodo) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Luxembourgish: Zebrasträif — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Malay: lintasan zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fotgjengerfelt — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fotgjengerovergang — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gangfelt — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gangfelt — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Polish: zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Portuguese: passadeira — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Portuguese: zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Portuguese: faixa de pedestres — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Portuguese: faixa — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Romanian: trecere de pietoni — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Romanian: zebră — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Russian: пешехо́дный перехо́д (pešexódnyj perexód) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Russian: полоса́тый перехо́д (polosátyj perexód) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Russian: зе́бра (zébra) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Russian: зе́бра перехо́д (zébra perexód) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Slovak: zebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Slovak: priechod pre chodcov — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Spanish: paso de cebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Spanish: cebra peatonal — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Spanish: cebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Swahili: kivuko milia — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Swedish: övergångsställe — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Thai: ทางม้าลาย (taang máa laai) — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Turkish: yaya geçidi — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes
  • Welsh: croesfan sebra — pedestrian crossing featuring broad white stripes