minesweeper

English

The game.

A minesweeping ship.

A helicopter with a minesweeping sled.

Etymology

mine +‎ sweeper

Noun

minesweeper (plural minesweepers)

A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
(uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.

Derived terms

destroyer minesweeper

Translations

vehicle, device or person for the removal of mines

Catalan: caçamines (ca) m, dragamines (ca) m.
Chinese:
Mandarin: 掃雷艦 (zh), 扫雷舰 (zh) (sǎoléijiàn)
Czech: minolovka (cs) f (a ship)
Danish: minestryger c
Finnish: miinaharava (device), miinanraivaaja (fi) (vehicle or person)
French: démineur (fr) m, dragueur de mines m
German: Minenabwehrfahrzeug n, Minenräumboot (de) n

Icelandic: sprengjuleit (2)
Italian: sminatore m, dragamine (it) m
Japanese: 掃海艇 (ja) (そうかいてい, sōkaitei)
Norwegian: minesveipar (1, 2)
Russian: ми́нный трал, тра́льщик m (mínnyj tral, trálʹščik) (vehicle), сапёр (ru) m (sapjór) (person)
Spanish: dragaminas m, barreminas m, buscaminas m
Swedish: minsvepare c

video game

Czech: hledání min n
Danish: minestryger
Finnish: miinaharava

French: démineur (fr) m
Japanese: マインスイーパー
Russian: сапёр (ru) m (sapjór)

See also

minehunter

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