Frisbee

See also: frisbee

English

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Frisbee

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Alternative forms

• frisbee (genericization of the trademark)
• frisbie (obsolete)

Etymology

1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪzbi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Proper noun

Frisbee

1. A trademarked brand name of disc-shaped gliding toy.

Noun

Frisbee (countable and uncountable, plural Frisbees)

1. A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.

   Hypernyms: frisbee, disc, flying disc

2. (by extension, genericization) A frisbee, a disk-shaped gliding toy of any brand.
3. (sports, uncountable) frisbee: the sport involving Frisbees.

   Synonyms: disc, flying disc

Usage notes

Frisbee is proprietary name, trademarked in 1959. In avoiding the trademark, the term "flying disc", later shortened to disc has been used.

Derived terms

• frisbee
• frisbee golf
• frolf
• ultimate frisbee

Translations

toy

Arabic: صَحْنٌ طَائِر m (ṣaḥnun ṭāʔir) Armenian: թռչող ափսե (tʻṙčʻoġ apʻse), տարելկա (tarelka) (colloquial) Bavarian: Frisbee n Bulgarian: летя́щ ди́ск m (letjášt dísk) Chinese: Cantonese: 飛碟 / 飞碟 (fei1 dip6-2) Mandarin: 飛盤 / 飞盘 (zh) (fēipán) Czech: frisbee Danish: frisbee Dutch: frisbee (nl) Esperanto: flugdisko Finnish: frisbee (fi), liitokiekko French: frisbee (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Frisbee (de) n or m or f, Wurfscheibe (de) f, Frisbeescheibe f Hebrew: פריזבי m Hungarian: frizbi (hu) Icelandic: svifdiskur Italian: frisbee Japanese: フリスビー (furisubī), フライングディスク (ja) (furaingu-disuku) Korean: 프리스비 (peuriseubi), 플라잉 디스크 (peullaing diseukeu) Latin: discus volans m Latvian: frisbija disks m Lithuanian: plastinė lėkštė f Macedonian: фризби n (frizbi) Maori: ripi Mongolian: нисдэг таваг (nisdeg tavag) Norwegian: frisbee Polish: frisbee (pl) Portuguese: frisbee m, disco (pt) m Russian: лета́ющий диск m (letájuščij disk), лета́ющая таре́лка (ru) f (letájuščaja tarélka) Serbo-Croatian: frizbi (sh) Slovak: frisbee Spanish: frisbee m Swedish: frisbee Thai: จานบิน (th) (jaan-bin) Turkish: frizbi Ukrainian: фрісбі (frisbi) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

sport

Finnish: frisbee (fi), liitokiekkoilu German: Frisbee (de) n Polish: frisbee (pl) n

See also

• boomerang

Verb

Frisbee (third-person singular simple present Frisbees, present participle Frisbeeing, simple past and past participle Frisbeed)

1. To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.

   The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “Frisbee”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Frisbee

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Etymology

Borrowed from English Frisbee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʁɪsbi/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Frisbee n (strong, genitive Frisbee or Frisbees, no plural)

1. (uncountable, sports) frisbee
   • 2025 June 19, Johanna Treblin, quoting Stephen Defty, “Hausbesuch: Er hat Anfang der 1980er Ultimate Frisbee nach Berlin gebracht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:

     „Das Frisbee und ich sind beide 1957 zur Welt gekommen – seitdem begleiten wir uns“, sagt [Stephen] Defty.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Frisbee [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Frisbee
genitive	eines	des	Frisbee, Frisbees
dative	einem	dem	Frisbee
accusative	ein	das	Frisbee

Noun

Frisbee (standard) n or m or f (strong, genitive Frisbees or Frisbee, plural Frisbees)

1. (countable) frisbee (flying disk)

   Synonyms: Frisbeescheibe, (East Germany) Schwebedeckel

   • 2011 March 25, Moritz Förster, “Die Meister des Scheibenwurfs”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, Berlin: taz, die tageszeitung Verlagsgenossenschaft eG, →ISSN:

     Wird die Frisbee hierbei von einem Mitspieler gefangen, erzielt die Mannschaft einen Punkt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2025 October 31, Frauke Döhring, “"Ich watete durch das Wasser, bis ich sein Frisbee wiederfand"”, in Die Zeit‎, Hamburg, →ISSN:

     Ich zog mich bis auf die Unterwäsche aus, watete vor neugierigen Passanten durch Wasser und Schlamm, bis ich das Frisbee fand und in die Höhe hielt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

Listed as neuter in dictionaries, but colloquially also treated as a masculine or feminine noun (perhaps ellipsis of Frisbeescheibe f).

Declension

Declension of Frisbee [neuter // masculine // feminine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein, eine	das, der, die	Frisbee	die	Frisbees
genitive	eines, einer	des, der	Frisbees, Frisbee	der	Frisbees
dative	einem, einer	dem, der	Frisbee	den	Frisbees
accusative	ein, einen, eine	das, den, die	Frisbee	die	Frisbees

Further reading

• “Frisbee” in Duden online
• “Frisbee” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache