(Both of these spellings are less common)
cable car (plural cable cars)
- (US, Philippines) A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
- Synonym: (chiefly British English) cable tram
- Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.
- Synonym: people mover
2023 March 22, “Network News: Luton DART opens for business”, in RAIL, number 979, page 13:The Luton Direct Air-Rail Transit (DART) opened to passengers on March 10. The 1.3-mile cable car system is initially available for public use between 1400-1900 before opening in full at the end of the month.
- A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo
- Synonyms: tram, aerial tram, ropeway, gondola, gondola lift, telpher
hanging carriage
- Afrikaans: kabelkar, sweefspoor
- Arabic:
- Hijazi Arabic: تلفريك m (tilifrīk)
- Armenian: ճոպանուղու խցիկ (čopanuġu xcʻik) (the car itself), ճոպանուղի (hy) (čopanuġi) (the system)
- Bengali: কেব্লকার (keblokar)
- Catalan: telefèric (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 纜車/缆车 (zh) (lǎnchē)
- Dutch: kabelbaan (nl) f
- Finnish: köysirata (fi)
- French: téléphérique (fr) m, chariot (fr) (only the car/carriage)
- Galician: teleférico m
- German: Pendelbahn f
- Greek: τελεφερίκ (el) m (teleferík)
- Hebrew: רכבל (he) m (rakével, rachbál)
- Icelandic: kláfur m, loftferja f, kláfferja f
- Ido: kabloveturo (io)
- Italian: funivia (it) f
- Japanese: ケーブルカー (ja) (kēburukā)
- Korean: 케이블카 (keibeulka)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: teleferîk (ku) f
- Latvian: vagoniņš m
- Lithuanian: vagoniņš m
- Macedonian: жича́рница f (žičárnica), жи́чница f (žíčnica)
- Malay: kereta kabel
- Maltese: funikular f
- Navajo: yátʼááh naʼaloʼí, chidí dahnaalchʼąąłí
- Norwegian: taubane, togbane
- Persian: تلهکابین (tele-kâbin)
- Polish: kolej linowa (pl) f, kolejka linowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: teleférico (pt) m
- Romanian: telecabină (ro) f
- Russian: ваго́н кана́тной доро́ги m (vagón kanátnoj dorógi) (the car itself), кана́тная доро́га (ru) f (kanátnaja doróga) (the system)
- Spanish: teleférico (es) m
- Swedish: kabinbana (sv) c, linbana (sv) c
- Tagalog: kablekotse
- Tamil: கேபிள் கார் (kēpiḷ kār)
- Turkish: teleferik (tr)
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