sprint

• sprunt (dialectal)

Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Northern Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta (for later spretta), from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

• IPA^(key): /spɹɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

sprint (plural sprints)

1. A short race at top speed.
2. A burst of speed or activity.
3. (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.

sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)

1. (ambitransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp.

• intprs., prints

Borrowed from English sprint.

sprint m inan

1. sprint

Borrowed from English sprint.

• IPA^(key): /sprɪnt/

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• Hyphenation: sprint
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)

1. sprint

• eindsprint
• massasprint
• sprinten

Borrowed from English sprint.

• IPA^(key): /spʁint/

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sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint, short top-speed race

• “sprint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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sprint

1. singular imperative of sprinten

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprɪn(t)/

sprint (plural sprint-sprint)

1. (sports) sprint: a short race at top speed

   Synonym: lari cepat

• “sprint”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprint/
• Rhymes: -int
• Hyphenation: sprìnt

sprint m (invariable)

1. sprint (short, fast race)

   sprint finale ― final sprint

2. vivacity, brio

sprint f (invariable)

1. (automotive) a car having strong acceleration

Borrowed from English sprint, from Middle English sprenten, from Old Norse *sprenta, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of *sprintaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ-, from *sper-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsprint/

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• Rhymes: -int
• Syllabification: sprint

sprint m inan

1. (athletics) sprint (short race at top speed)
2. sprint (burst of speed or activity)

• “sprint”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “sprint”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. sprint (short race at top speed)
2. sprint (burst of speed or activity)

• sprintar
• sprinter

• “sprint”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French sprint.

sprint n (plural sprinturi)

1. sprint

Borrowed from English sprint.

sprȉnt m inan (Cyrillic spelling спри̏нт)

1. sprint

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɾint/ [ˈspɾĩn̪t̪]
  • Rhymes: -int
  • Syllabification: sprint
• IPA^(key): /esˈpɾint/ [esˈpɾĩn̪t̪]
  • Rhymes: -int

sprint m (plural sprints)

1. alternative spelling of esprint

• “sprint”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

sprint c

1. a small (metal) pin (in a lock, grenade, fire extinguisher or the like)

   dra ur sprinten

   pull out the pin

2. a sprint (short race)

• “sprint”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sprint”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sprint”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)