cable car
Noun
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Noun
cable car (plural cable cars)
- (US, Philippines) A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
- Synonyms: 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.
- Synonyms: people mover
- A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo
- Synonyms: tram, aerial tram, ropeway, gondola, gondola lift, telpher
- French: téléphérique, chariot (only the car/carriage)
- German: Pendelbahn
- Italian: funivia
- Portuguese: teleférico
- Russian: вагон канатная дорога
- Spanish: teleférico
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