He liked to skip rocks in the early morning and watch them ricochet across the smooth surface of the pond.
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Ricochet
Synonyms for "ricochet" (45 found)
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68 translations across 30 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- рикошет noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- рикоширам verb (to rebound)
Catalan
2 entries- rebot noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- retopar verb (to rebound)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 跳彈 /跳弹 noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Dutch
2 entries- ricochet noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- afketsen verb (to rebound)
Estonian
1 entries- rikošett noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Finnish
2 entries- kimmoke noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- kimmota verb (to rebound)
French
2 entries- ricochet noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- ricocher verb (to rebound)
German
4 entries- Querschläger noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- Querschuss noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- abprallen verb (to rebound)
- querschlagen verb (to rebound)
Greek
1 entries- αποστρακισμός noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Hebrew
2 entries- נֶתֶז noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- רִיקוֹשֵט noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Hungarian
4 entries- geller noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- lepattanás noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- visszapattanás noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- gellert kap verb (to rebound)
Icelandic
4 entries- endurkast noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- skopp noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- endurkastast verb (to rebound)
- fleyta kerlingar verb (to rebound)
Ido
1 entries- rikochar verb (to rebound)
Irish
1 entries- athscinn verb (to rebound)
Italian
2 entries- rimbalzo noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- rimbalzare verb (to rebound)
Japanese
2 entries- 跳弾 noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- 跳ね返す verb (to rebound)
Kazakh
1 entries- жанап тию noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Korean
1 entries- 도탄 noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Latvian
1 entries- rikošets noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Macedonian
2 entries- рикоше́ noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- рикошети́ра verb (to rebound)
Malay
2 entries- lantunan noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- melantun verb (to rebound)
Māori
3 entries- ripi noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- pahu verb (to rebound)
- ripi verb (to rebound)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سكمك verb (to rebound)
Polish
1 entries- rykoszet noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Portuguese
2 entries- ricochete noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- ricochetear verb (to rebound)
Russian
4 entries- рикоше́т noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- бить рикоше́том verb (to rebound)
- отрикоше́тить verb (to rebound)
- рикоше́тить verb (to rebound)
Spanish
4 entries- rebotadura noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- rebote noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- rebotar verb (to rebound)
- recudir verb (to rebound)
Swedish
2 entries- rikoschett noun (an instance of ricocheting)
- rikoschettera verb (to rebound)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đạn nảy noun (an instance of ricocheting)
Welsh
1 entries- rhybedio verb (to rebound)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Be careful, the bullet can ricochet off the rock and come towards you.
Source: tatoeba (8601870)
And you've not been hit / By flying lead / You'd better close your eyes / Bow your head / Wait for the ricochet
Source: wiktionary
Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way.
Source: wiktionary
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