sprint

sprint

See also: šprint and Sprint

English

Alternative forms

• sprunt (dialectal)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɹɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

sprint (plural sprints)

1. A short race at top speed.
2. A burst of speed or activity.
3. (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.

Descendants

• → Catalan: esprint
• → Czech: sprint
• → Dutch: sprint
• → French: sprint
• → German: Sprint
  • → Serbo-Croatian: šprint
• → Greek: σπριντ (sprint)
• → Italian: sprint
• → Japanese: スプリント (supurinto)
• → Korean: 스프린트 (seupeurinteu)
• → Polish: sprint
• → Russian: спринт (sprint)
• → Serbo-Croatian: sprȉnt, спри̏нт
• → Spanish: esprint, sprint

Translations

short race at top speed

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: спринт (sprint) Chinese: Mandarin: 短跑 (zh) (duǎnpǎo), 衝刺／冲刺 (zh) (chōngcì) Czech: sprint (cs) m Dutch: sprint (nl) m Finnish: pikajuoksu (fi), pikamatka (fi) French: sprint (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Kurzstreckenlauf m, Sprint (de) m Greek: σπριντ n (sprint) Hebrew: מאוץ‎ m (maóts), ריצה מהירה‎ f (ritsá mehirá), ספרינט‎ m (sprint) Irish: ráib f, rúid f, ruthag m, aga reatha m Italian: velocità (it) f, sprint (it) m Japanese: スプリント (ja) (supurinto), 短距離走 (ja) (たんきょりそう, tankyorisō) Korean: 스프린트 (seupeurinteu) Macedonian: спринт m (sprint) Malay: lari pecut (ms) Polish: sprint (pl) m Portuguese: carreira (pt) Romanian: sprint (ro) n Russian: спринт (ru) m (sprint) (бег на коро́ткую диста́нцию) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: спри̏нт m Roman: sprȉnt (sh) m Slovak: šprint m Swedish: sprinterlopp Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: chạy nước rút Walloon: sprine (wa) m

burst of speed or activity

Czech: sprint (cs) m, spurt m Finnish: pyrähdys (fi) German: Spurt (de) m Italian: attività (it) f Macedonian: спринт m (sprint) Norwegian: Bokmål: spurt (no) m Nynorsk: spurt m Polish: sprint (pl) m Romanian: sprint (ro) n Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: спри̏нт m Roman: sprȉnt (sh) m Slovak: šprint m, špurt m

Verb

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp.

Translations

To run etc at top speed for a short period

Bulgarian: спринтирам (sprintiram) Chinese: Mandarin: 短跑 (zh) (duǎnpǎo) Czech: sprintovat Danish: sprinte (da), spæne Esperanto: kuregi Finnish: pinkaista (fi), pyrähtää (fi) German: spurten (de) Greek: τρέχω (el) (trécho) Macedonian: спри́нтува (spríntuva), тр́ча (tŕča) Norwegian: Bokmål: spurte (no) Nynorsk: spurte Polish: biec sprintem (about running) Romanian: sprinta (ro) Serbo-Croatian: sprintati (sh) Slovak: šprintovať, špurtovať Spanish: esprintar (es) Swedish: sprinta (sv) Walloon: sprinter (wa)

Anagrams

• prints

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

sprint m

1. sprint

Related terms

• sprintovat
• sprinter m

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprɪnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sprint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)

1. sprint

Derived terms

• eindsprint
• massasprint
• sprinten

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spʁint/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint, short top-speed race

Further reading

• “sprint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

sprint

1. singular imperative of sprinten

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprint/
• Rhymes: -int
• Hyphenation: sprìnt

Noun

sprint m (invariable)

1. sprint (short, fast race)
2. vivacity, brio

Noun

sprint f (invariable)

1. (automotive) a car having strong acceleration

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint, from Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of *sprintaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ-, from *sper-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sprint/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -int
• Syllabification: sprint

Noun

sprint m inan

1. (athletics) sprint (short race at top speed)
2. sprint (burst of speed or activity)

Declension

Declension of sprint

	singular	plural
nominative	sprint	sprinty
genitive	sprintu	sprintów
dative	sprintowi	sprintom
accusative	sprint	sprinty
instrumental	sprintem	sprintami
locative	sprincie	sprintach
vocative	sprincie	sprinty

Related terms

adjective

• sprinterski

 

nouns

• sprinter
• sprinterka

 

Further reading

• sprint in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sprint in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

From French sprint.

Noun

sprint n (plural sprinturi)

1. sprint

Declension

Declension of sprint

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sprint	sprintul	(niște) sprinturi	sprinturile
genitive/dative	(unui) sprint	sprintului	(unor) sprinturi	sprinturilor
vocative	sprintule		sprinturilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

Noun

sprȉnt m (Cyrillic spelling спри̏нт)

1. sprint

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈpɾint/ [esˈpɾĩn̪t̪]
• Rhymes: -int

Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. Alternative spelling of esprint

Further reading

• “sprint”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

sprint c

1. a small (metal) pin (in a lock, grenade, fire extinguisher or the like)

   Dra ur sprinten

   Pull out the pin

2. a sprint (short race)

Declension

Declension of sprint
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sprint	sprinten	sprintar	sprintarna
Genitive	sprints	sprintens	sprintars	sprintarnas

References

• sprint in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sprint in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sprint in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)