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 and a seat
• Mobility scooter, a wheelchair with a motor
• Motorized scooter, a larger powered scooter, ridden standing up
• Electric kick scooter, a small folding electrically scooter, ridden standing up
• Self-balancing scooter, a compact self-balancing dicycle with electric motor, ridden standing up

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
• SCOOTER, Scoot airline call sign

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 (talking baseball), 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 character), Lily Aldrin's old high-school boyfriend
• Scooter (Muppet), 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

• Razor 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.
• Scooter (Belgian band), a pop group

Nature

Animals

• Scooter (bird), the scoter, a groups of stocky seaducks in the genus Melanitta
• Scooter (cat), the world's oldest known male cat (tomcat)
• Water scooters, Gerridae a family of true bugs in the order Hemiptera

Astronomy

• 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
• Scooter (cat), American cat, Guinness feline longevity record holder

See also

• List of scooter manufacturers
• Scootering (disambiguation)
• Scooter Boy, one of several scooter-related subcultures
• Scooter Girl (disambiguation)