# sprint
## English
### Alternative forms

* sprunt (dialectal)

### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɹɪnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪnt

### Noun

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

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: esprint
* → Czech: sprint
* → Dutch: sprint
* → French: sprint
* → German: Sprint
** → Serbo-Croatian: šprint
* → Greek: σπριντ (sprint)
* → Italian: sprint
* → Japanese: スプリント (supurinto)
* → Korean: 스프린트 (seupeurinteu)
* → Polish: sprint
* → Portuguese: sprint, ⇒ sprintar
* → Russian: спринт (sprint)
* → Serbo-Croatian: sprȉnt, спри̏нт
* → Spanish: esprint, sprint

#### Translations
### Verb

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

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* canoe sprint
* hollow sprint
* kayak sprint
* sprintable
* sprint car
* sprinter
* sprint finish
* sprintless
* wind sprint

### Anagrams

* intprs., prints

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

### Noun

sprint m inan
* sprint

#### Related terms

* sprinter m
* sprintovat

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sprɪnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sprint
* Rhymes: -ɪnt

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* eindsprint
* massasprint
* sprinten

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spʁint/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)
* sprint, short top-speed race

### Further reading

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

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sprint
* singular imperative of sprinten

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsprɪn(t)/

### Noun

sprint (plural sprint-sprint)
* (sports) sprint: a short race at top speed.
    Synonym: lari cepat

#### Derived terms

* antarsprint

### Further reading

* “sprint” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsprint/
* Rhymes: -int
* Hyphenation: sprìnt

### Noun

sprint m (invariable)
* sprint (short, fast race)
    sprint finale ― final sprint
* vivacity, brio

### Noun

sprint f (invariable)
* (automotive) a car having strong acceleration

## Polish
### Etymology

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-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsprint/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -int
* Syllabification: sprint

### Noun

sprint m inan
* (athletics) sprint (short race at top speed)
* sprint (burst of speed or activity)

#### Related terms

* sprinterski
* sprinter
* sprinterka

### Further reading

* sprint in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* sprint in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sprint.

### Pronunciation

* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈspɾĩ.tɨ/

### Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)
* sprint (short race at top speed)
* sprint (burst of speed or activity)

#### Related terms

* sprintar
* sprinter

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sprint.

### Noun

sprint n (plural sprinturi)
* sprint

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sprint.

### Noun

sprȉnt m (Cyrillic spelling спри̏нт)
* sprint

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈpɾint/ [esˈpɾĩn̪t̪]
* Rhymes: -int

### Noun

sprint m (plural sprints)
* Alternative spelling of esprint

### Further reading

* “sprint”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

sprint c
* a small (metal) pin (in a lock, grenade, fire extinguisher or the like)
    dra ur sprintenpull out the pin
* a sprint (short race)

#### Declension
### References

* sprint in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sprint in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sprint in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)