Trolley

Travelers with trolleys

A trolley is a transport aid provided with rollers or wheels , i.e. a trolley, handcart, cart or transport trolley, which is usually pulled or pushed by hand. The word comes from the English language and describes in particular a shopping trolley ; the term is derived from the verb to troll "run, go"; in German there is still the comparable expression "troll".

Areas of application

Shopping trolley

Large shopping bags on racks with two wheels are also referred to as a trolley (or shopping scooters, shopping cart), colloquially sometimes called hacking porsche , pensioners Porsche or potato Mercedes .

Trolley case

Three trolleys in use

Trolleys or luggage trolleys are available with two or four wheels. Special designs are available, for example for the transport of larger camera or fishing equipment. Alternatively, some of these can also be worn as a backpack .

gastronomy

Serving aircraft passengers from the trolley

Trolleys are special mobile containers used in the catering industry, for example in aviation . They are used to store food and drinks, duty-free products, garbage or utensils on board aircraft . They fit as effectively as possible into the narrow aircraft galleys and have parking brakes that can be operated with the foot to prevent them from rolling away by themselves . Similar means of transport are also used as “ minibars ” in railroad passenger trains to supply passengers.

Boat transport

In shipping, trolleys are light, hand-pulled boat transport trolleys for dinghies and collapsed folding or inflatable boats .

Golf

In golf a trolley is used to a golf bag containing the set of golf clubs and other during the game of golf useful utensils contains (balls, rainwear, drinks, food, etc.), comfortable on the golf course to carry. A golf trolley usually also has an umbrella and a scorecard holder .

One differentiates:

Non -motorized, mostly two-wheeled trolleys that are conventionally dragged behind you or (recently increasingly) pushed in front of you as three-wheeled push trolleys.
Motorized trolleys equipped with an electric motor powered by a rechargeable battery . These electric trolleys are mostly three-wheeled, may even have a seat and are guided by the golfer following them.

A trolley is often incorrectly referred to as a caddy or even a cart .