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What is "go-cart"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
go-cart

gocart \go"cart`\, go-cart \go"-cart`\n.

  1. A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk. [WordNet sense 1]

    Syn: walker, baby-walker.

  2. A cart used to carry heavy items and pushed by a person; it may have one, two or four wheels. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: handcart, pushcart, cart.

  3. a small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around. [WordNet sense 3]

    Syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, pushchair, pusher.

go-cart

baby-walker \baby-walker\ n. a framework on small wheels or casters designed to support small children while they are learning to walk, and usually having a fabric support that permits the child to sit. Called also walker and go-cart.

Syn: walker, go-cart

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
go-cart

also gocart, 1670s, originally "a litter, sedan chair;" also "an infant's walker" (1680s), from go + cart (n.). The modern form go-kart (1959) was coined in reference to a kind of miniature racing car with a frame body and a two-stroke engine.

Wiktionary
go-cart

alt. 1 A small, open-wheeled vehicle for racing. 2 (context dated English) A framework moving on casters, designed to support children as they learn to walk. n. 1 A small, open-wheeled vehicle for racing. 2 (context dated English) A framework moving on casters, designed to support children as they learn to walk.

WordNet
go-cart

  1. n. an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk [syn: walker, baby-walker]

  2. wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels; "he used a handcart to carry the rocks away"; "their pushcart was piled high with groceries" [syn: handcart, pushcart, cart]

  3. a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, pushchair, pusher]

Usage examples of "go-cart".

With that he hopped into his go-cart and pulled for town, larruping the poor horse sinful.

In 1990, he predicts, go-carts will outgun Indy cars and dune buggies won't need wheels.

Photos show people driving go-carts around a track outlined in old tires.

Each company carries its shields in go-carts, and they are served out on going into action.

He could see nothing at first, given the Kite's limited field of view-one disadvantage of using a telescopic sight instead of wide-angle binoculars-but a quick pan picked up the image of a light metal frame containing a sitting figure with legs outstretched as if driving a go-cart.