'scooter' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a wheeled vehicle with a handlebar, a platform for the rider's feet, and an engine or other type of motor. For example: "I bought a new electric scooter and I was able to ride it around the block!".
He and his wife were riding their scooter when the earthquake struck and were thrown off, narrowly missing being hit by falling rubble.
Borsalino, the most renowned hat shop in the world, stands at its entrance, the windows filled with such delights as a pink suede scooter helmet with rhinestone studded strap.
I feel a little bit cool until an elderly woman on a mobility scooter laughs in my face, reminding me I'm a 40-year-old man sucking on a sparkly mauve pretend cigarette.
Dr Gary Smith, one of the authors of the Clinical Pediatrics paper, advises anyone buying a scooter to also get a helmet.
The usual lopsided Bedford trucks, bullock carts, auto rickshaws, slaloming hatchbacks and scooter swarms that infest every highway I have ever travelled on in India were conspicuous by their absence.
In the early morning half light, Ajad Miccoli stops his scooter on his way to work and contemplates the scene unfolding across the scruffy, shuttered-up bay.
Hence her carefully staged trips in an electric car, and her backing for Scootlib, a proposed electric scooter-hire system akin to the capital's Vélib for bicycles and Autolib for electric cars.
Carmakers and scooter-makers protested to the government.
He and his pony-tailed, scooter- riding advisers romped through the corridors of Prague Castle, exorcising the ghosts of the communist usurpers with humanity and humour.
A few weeks ago the firm also launched the MP3, a three-wheeler with two front wheels, in Piazza del Campidoglio, one of Rome's central squares.Though the company remains highly indebted and both Aprilia and Moto Guzzi (another scooter-maker owned by the group) still need to turn the corner, Piaggio can celebrate the Vespa's 60th birthday this year with some confidence.
Today, the 35-year-old Wall Street analyst who zips to work on his push-scooter, listening to Moby on his headphones and carrying annual reports in his backpack, has far more in common with a 20-year-old than he would have done a generation ago.
