tiptoeing
🔒 The real picture unlocks in the dictionary app.
The meaning (definition) of the word tiptoeing
walking quietly on the tips of the toes
The word tiptoeing used in a sentence
“I am tiptoeing past the sleeping cat.”
How the word tiptoeing is said around the world
| French | marche sur la pointe des pieds (MARSH sewr lah PWANT day PYAY) |
| Spanish | caminando de puntillas (kah-mee-NAHN-doh deh poon-TEE-yahs) |
| Mandarin | 踮着脚走 (dyen juh jyow zoh) |
| Hindi | दबे पाँव चल रहा हूँ (da-BAY pahnv chal ra-HAH hoon) |
| Arabic | يَمْشِي عَلَى أَطْرَافِ أَصَابِعِهِ (yam-SHEE ah-LAH at-RAAF ah-sah-BEE-ih-hee) |
| Russian | иду на цыпочках (ee-DOO nah tsi-POCH-kakh) |
| Portuguese (EU) | a andar em bicos de pés (a un-DAR em BEE-koosh de PESH) |
| Portuguese (BR) | andando na ponta dos pés (ah-NAN-doo nah PON-tah doos PEHS) |
| Japanese | つまさきで あるいている (tsoo-mah-sah-KEE-deh ah-roo-ee-teh-EE-roo) |
| German | auf Zehenspitzen gehen (owf TSAY-en-shpit-sen GAY-en) |
| Urdu | دبے پاؤں چل رہا (da-BAY PAH-on chal ra-HAH) |
| Punjabi | ਪੱਬਾਂ ਭਾਰ ਤੁਰ ਰਿਹਾ (pub-BAAN bhaar tur ri-HAH) |
| Korean | 발끝으로 걷고 있다 (BAHL-kkeu-teu-roh GUHT-goh EET-ttah) |
| Hebrew | הוֹלֵךְ עַל קְצוֹת הָאֶצְבָּעוֹת (hoh-LEKH al ktsot hah-ets-bah-OT) |
| Greek | περπατάω στις μύτες (pehr-pah-TAH-oh stees MEE-tes) |
| Dutch | op mijn tenen lopen (op myn TAY-nun LOH-pun) |
| Tagalog | naglalakad nang patiyad (nahg-lah-LAH-kahd nahng pah-tee-YAHD) |
| Vietnamese | đang đi nhón chân (dahng dee nyawn CHUHN) |
| Turkish | parmak uçlarımda yürüyorum (par-MAHK ooch-lah-RUHM-dah yew-rew-YOH-room) |
| Persian | دارم نوکپا راه میروم (DAH-ram NUK-pah rah mee-RAH-vam) |
| Polish | idę na palcach (EE-deh nah PAL-tsakh) |
| Ukrainian | іду навшпиньки (ee-DU nav-SHPIN-kee) |
| Bengali | পা টিপে হাঁটছি (pah TEE-pay HAHNT-chhee) |
| Swedish | går på tå (gohr poh TOH) |
| Italian | sto passando in punta di piedi (stoh pahs-SAHN-doh een POON-tah dee PYEH-dee) |
Learn tiptoeing with pictures, sound and writing practice
Hear tiptoeing spoken aloud, trace how it is written, and explore it in 25 languages in the Little Wordsmiths dictionary.
Open the full dictionaryLittle Wordsmiths is a picture-first children's dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia in 25 languages.
Home · Dictionary · Sign in · Sign up