air rifle

English

Noun

air rifle (plural air rifles)

1. A rifle that propels a pellet or other projectile by using compressed gas, rather than an explosion of gunpowder or other means.

   Hypernym: air gun

   Hyponym: BB gun (broadly synonymous)

   Coordinate terms: air pistol, pellet gun

Related terms

• airsoft

 

Translations

rifle

• Finnish: ilmakivääri (fi)
• German: Luftgewehr (de) n
• Portuguese: carabina de pressão f
• Russian: духово́е ружьё n (duxovóje ružʹjó), пневмати́ческая винто́вка f (pnevmatíčeskaja vintóvka)
• Spanish: rifle de aire m
• Swedish: luftgevär n