all-terrain vehicles

Off-road recreational machines

All-terrain vehicles are motorized craft designed to handle rough, unpaved ground—mud, sand, rocks, snow.

The term covers ATVs (small four-wheelers straddled like motorcycles), UTVs (side-by-sides with bench seating), and similar off-road machines.

They're used for recreation, farming, and military applications: We took the all-terrain vehicles up the mountain trail.

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