Crossword clues for roadster
roadster
- Open car
- MG, e.g.
- An open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat
- A small lightweight carriage
- Drawn by a single horse
- Car with a rumble seat
- Flapper Age vehicle
- Sporty car
- Car a Duke included in list
- Open two-seater car
- A copper involved in roll in sports car
- Repairs, or trades, sports car
- Auto style
- Car style
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roadster \Road"ster\, n.
(Naut.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
--Ham. Nav. Encyc.-
A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
A sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster.
--Thackeray. A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
One who drives much; a coach driver. [Eng.]
A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. [Eng. Slang.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"open two-seat automobile," 1908; earlier a light, horse-drawn carriage (1892); a horse for riding (1818); "a ship lying near the shore" (1744), from road (n.) + -ster.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a sea-going vessel ride at anchor in a road or bay. 2 (context nautical English) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides. 3 A horse for riding on the road. 4 A bicycle, or tricycle, adapted for common roads, rather than for the racing track, usually of classic style & steel-framed. 5 (context UK dated English) One who drives much; a coach driver. 6 (context UK dated slang English) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. 7 An open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat. 8 A person who lives along the road.
WordNet
n. an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat [syn: runabout, two-seater]
a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse [syn: buggy]
Wikipedia
A roadster, sometimes referred to as a spider or spyder, is an open two-seat car with emphasis on sporting appearance or character. Initially an American term for a two-seat car with no weather protection, usage has spread internationally and has evolved to include two-seat convertibles.
The roadster is also a style of racing car driven in United States Auto Club (USAC) Championship Racing, including the Indianapolis 500, in the 1950s and 1960s. This type of racing car was superseded by mid-engined cars.
A roadster, also known as city bicycle, is a type of utility bicycle once common worldwide and still very common in Asia, Africa, some parts of Europe, and Latin America. During the past several years, traditionally styled roadster bicycles have gained considerable popularity throughout the Western world, particularly as a lifestyle or fashion statement.
Generally they are suitable for urban environments and they focus more on comfort and practicality instead of speed or efficiency. They normally have a slightly curved, roughly planar aligned and elevated handlebar, providing users a straight sitting position. They have fewer gears and they often are heavier than road bicycles. They might have the toptube diagonally aligned for allowing easy mounting in and out and by default they have a rear rack for transport of items. The saddle is typically larger compared with other bicycles and the majority are provided with chain and mud guards against oil or dirt.
Roadster is a type of driving competition for horses and ponies where the horse and exhibitor appear in equipment similar to that used in harness racing. It is derived from the historical use of certain horses hitched to light carts that traveled quickly from one place to another, often racing on ordinary dirt roads, hence the name. The term is also used to describe the horse used for such competition. Horses pull a light sulky and drivers wear racing silks. However, the exhibitors do not race. Instead, they perform in an arena at horse shows at trotting gaits that include a slow jog, a medium speed "road gait," and a rapid and long-strided but controlled trot referred to as showing "at speed." Animals are evaluated on performance and manners.
This type of class is particularly popular in Shetland pony and Morgan horse breed shows.
Category:Horse driving
Roadster may refer to any of the following:
Transportation
- Roadster (automobile)
- Roadster (bicycle)
- Roadster (horse)
- Roadster utility, an automobile with an open-topped roadster body and a rear cargo bed
- Standard motorcycle
Businesses
- Roadster diner, a Lebanese restaurant chain
Video games
- Roadster, a game in the Sports Collection, Japan-exclusive Game Boy video game
- Roadsters (video game) released for Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, Sony PlayStation and Game Boy Color
Usage examples of "roadster".
He turned, walked up toward the lane where his car was parked, and Asey strolled slowly back to his roadster in the shadow of the elm trees.
Gardner accepted his sister the way he might have accepted - Asey tried to think of a suitable simile as he climbed into the roadster.
After driving on three miles without finding any trace of the forty - fourth, Asey turned the roadster around and started back home.
And at the sight of the driver, leaning out and peering impatiently ahead at the parked roadster, Asey got up and gravely kicked himself.
Charles had been a coachman or a groom, Asey bet, as he ducked behind a clump of bushes and watched the bow - legged little man inarch over to the roadster and play the beam of his flashlight around it, and then over the contents of the seat.
Before Cummings had a chance to open his mouth, the roadster was parked in front of the station, and Asey was half - way into the telegraphic office.
When he came out of the telegraph office an hour later, Asey found the doctor holding an impromptu clinic from the seat of the roadster.
After some very interesting exchanges of reminiscences about incurable millers, roarers, lungers, half-bred blood-cattle, gingers, and slugs, which led inevitably to still more interesting stories of the chase, during the course of which both gentlemen found themselves perfectly in accord in their contempt of such ignoble persons as roadsters and skirters, and their conviction that the soundest of all maxims was, Get over the ground if it breaks your neck, formality was at an end between them, and his lordship was not only begging Bertram to call him Chuffy, as everyone else did, but promising to show him some of the rarer sights in town.
The A-Bomb was a fenderless roadster powered by a Model B straight-four.
The bartender rounded the bar in a casual way, looking up at the ceiling as though he was pondering some intricate problem of kalsomining, and then fell upon Curly so suddenly that the roadster had no excuses ready.
The conservatively styled BMWs and Infinitis looked drab in contrast, though somebody had spiced up his love life with one of those kicky little BMW Z4 Roadsters in sleek, polished silver.
He opened the door just as the roadster spurted, and before Margo could shift to the brake pedal, Nayre decided matters for her.
Asey turned to find the roly - poly figure of Quinton Sharp standing by the side of the roadster.
He saw Sinker making a dive for a roadster that had swung in from the opposite direction.
But Harry had spied the roadster when Sinker had boarded it near the parking lot, behind the Messenger building.