Vehicle and Transportation Words

airplane
Airplanes fly in the sky.

ambulance
An ambulance takes sick people to the hospital.

anchor

An anchor is a automobile A bicycle has heavy metal An automobile is a car. two wheels, a device that handle bar, and holds a ship in pedals. place.

bicycle

blimp
A blimp is is a balloon-like airship that floats in the sky.

bulldozer boat
Boats float in the water.

A bulldozer is cab A bus is a large vehicle a large tractor Cab is another that can take many that moves word for taxi. passengers to places. earth.

bus

camper
You can travel and sleep in a camper.

canoe
A canoe is a small boat.

car

cart

A cart is a caravel You can travel The caravel is a large wheeled vehicle in a car. sailing ship that was that is pulled or pushed by an first made in Portugal animal or a in the late 1400's. person. Many world explorers used caravels.

dump truck covered wagon Conestoga

US pioneers used A dump truck engine is a truck that The engine of a train can carry and pulls the railroad cars then dump its along the track.

engine

covered wagons pulled by oxen or horses to US pioneers move their belongings used westward. They are Conestoga wagons pulled also called conestoga wagons or prairie by oxen or schooners. horses to move their belongings westward. They are also called covered wagons or prairie schooners.

wagon

load (like gravel or soil). A dump truck toy is a great in a sandbox.

The engines of an airplane propel it through the air. Englines also power other vehicles, like cars.

fire truck
Fire fighters on a fire truck help put out fires.

funnel
The funnel is the smokestack of a ship or a train.

A garbage truck picks A helicopter is a The fuselage up garbage and hauls it flying machine. is the main to the dump. It is kept in the body of an air by a airplane. sideways propeller on top.

fuselage

garbage truck

helicopter

hot-air balloon
Hot-air balloons float through the air.

hull
The hull is the main body or frame of a ship.

jet
A jet is a very fast, powerful airplane.

jet engine
A jet engine is a powerful motor that propels a jet plane.

junk
A junk is a traditional Chinese sailing ship made of wood.

A lifeboat is a small boat that A kayak is a The landing Every car has a license is kept on a keel small boat plate that tells you gear of an larger ship; it is The keel is the bottom with an where it's from. airplane is the used in of a ship. opening in the set of wheels emergencies. center for a used during person. landing and takeoff.

kayak

landing gear

lifeboat license plate

motorcycle The Mayflower was minivan A limousine is the name of the ship in A motorcycle has two a very long, which the 102 Pilgrims A minivan is a wheels and can go small van. fancy car. fassssttttttt! sailed from England to what is now Massachusetts, on the northeastern coast of the USA. The Pilgrims landed on December 11, 1620.

limousine

Mayflower

oar
An oar is used to row a boat.

paddle
A paddle is an oar for rowing a small boat.

plane
Planes are machines that fly in the sky. People ride in them.

propeller
A propeller is a device with blades that is turned by an engine; it porthole makes boats (and some A porthole is

prow
The prow is front part of a ship.

a window in a ship.

airplanes) move.

sail railroad tracks

Trains run ride along railroad When you take a ride, tracks. you travel on something else, like a bicycle, a horse, or other means of transportation.

rocket
A rocket is a machine that propels itself into space.

A sail is a large piece of strong fabric that catches the wind rowboat and propels a A rowboat is a small boat or sailboard boat that is propelled through the by oars that a person water. moves.

sailboat
A sailboat is a boat that has sails and is powered by the wind.

school bus
A school bus carries children to and from school.

ship
A ship is a very large boat.

submarine
A submarine is a A steamshovel is a vessel that can machine that digs large travel holes and can move underwater and dirt. carry people.

steamshovel

tanker

A tanker is a truck that People pay a tail carries liquids, like taxi driver to The tail is the milk or gasoline. drive them rear section of places. an airpane.

taxi

tire

tow truck

A tire is an air-filled A tow truck is a covering for a wheel. strong truck that Cars, bicycles, and can pull cars and many other vehicles other trucks use tires. when they cannot move.

A traffic light truck train Trains run A tractor is a powerful directs traffic A truck is a along railroad vehicle that can pull a safely. Green A train has an engine vehicle that can plow or other farm that pulls railroad cars carry big loads. tracks. means go, tools. along a track. yellow means prepare to stop, and red means stop.

tracks

tractor

traffic light

trunk
The trunk is the large compartment in the back part of a car.

vehicle A unicycle is A van is a truck used to a vehicle with haul people and things A vehicle moves tugboat people and from one place to A tugboat is a sturdy one wheel that things from one another. boat that guides large is moved by place to another. pedals. boats in and out of harbors.

unicycle

van

wheelbarro w wagon
You can pull things in a wagon.

wheel
A wheel is a circular object that rotates around its center.

yacht wheelchair A A yacht is a wheelbarrow A wheelchair is a chair very nice small on wheels that is a small cart ship. handicapped people with one wheel and two can use to get around. handles.

zeppelin
A zeppelin is

a metalframed, motorized balloon-like airship that floats in the sky.