Tom gave Mary a piggyback ride.
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Piggyback
Synonyms for "piggyback" (9 found)
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14 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 19 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- a recostines adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
Bikol Central
1 entries- baba adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
Cebuano
1 entries- baba verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 揹 /背 verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Dutch
1 entries- meeliften adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
Finnish
2 entries- reppuselässä adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- kantaa reppuselässä verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
French
1 entries- found verb (to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event)
German
4 entries- huckepack adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- dranhängen verb (to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event)
- draufpacken verb (to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event)
- draufsatteln verb (to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event)
Indonesian
2 entries- gendong verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
- menggendong verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Italian
3 entries- a cavalluccio adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- portare a cavalcioni verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
- portare in spalla verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Japanese
3 entries- 肩車 adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- おんぶ verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
- 負ぶう verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Korean
2 entries- 어부바 adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- 업다 verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Macedonian
2 entries- на́ грб adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- у́шка adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
Māori
1 entries- pīkau verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Polish
4 entries- na barana adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- nieść na barana verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
- nosić na barana verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
- wjechać na plecach innych verb (to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event)
Portuguese
4 entries- às cavalitas adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- às cavaluchas adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- levar aos ombros verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
- levar às cavalitas verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Russian
2 entries- на зако́рках adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- на спине́ adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
Spanish
4 entries- a cuestas adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- a la espalda adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- a tute adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
- a tuto adv (on somebody's back or shoulders)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cõng verb (to carry someone on the back or shoulders)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
Daddy, I can't walk any more. Could you give me a piggyback ride?
Source: tatoeba (1134607)
give someone a piggyback ride
Source: wiktionary
A Montreal-Toronto "Piggyback" freight of the Canadian Pacific.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.