połykać kilometry

English translation: gobbling up miles

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Polish term or phrase:połykać kilometry
English translation:gobbling up miles
Entered by: Piotr Łazorko

14:56 Aug 27, 2020
Polish to English translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation / kolarstwo
Polish term or phrase: połykać kilometry
Prosiłbym o pomoc w zgrabnym przetłumaczeniu tej frazy.

połykać kilometry-pokonywać szybko jakiś dystans

"Najciekawsze są wycieczki na dystansie 60-70 kilometrów. Jedźmy wolno, po co połykać kilometry?" - radzi w Henryk Sytner, wielki miłośnik jazdy na dwóch kółkach, na co dzień dziennikarz radiowej Trójki, zajmujący się sportem i turystyką.

Wiele osób nie wie, od czego rozpocząć rowerowe wycieczki. Proszę o radę - jak się przełamać?
Henryk Sytner: Do wycieczek rowerowych trzeba być zawsze dobrze przygotowanym: trzeba mieć sprawny rower, ale samemu też trzeba być na nie gotowym. Trzeba mieć w miarę dobrą kondycję i nie zaczynać swojej przygody z rowerem od przejechania od razu dystansu 100-150 kilometrów. Każda rowerowa wycieczka ma czemuś służyć. A szybkie połykanie kilometrów tego nie daje. Jestem wrogiem takich długich wypraw. Rower ma służyć poznawaniu świata, a jak poznawać świat, gdy połyka się tylko kilometry? A człowiek po długiej trasie schodzi z roweru i na nic nie ma już ochoty."
https://londynek.net/czytelnia/Rower lepszy niz bieganie biu...
Piotr Łazorko
Poland
Local time: 23:06
gobbling up miles
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2014 World Cup - #WorldCupRank No. 37 Steven Gerrard of ...
Once he was the long-limbed dynamo, gobbling up miles of grass, firing from all areas and driving his teammates forward. Now he's a deep-lying playmaker, ...

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Shoe Of The Week: New Balance Fresh Foam 1080 – PodiumRunner
Mar 2, 2016 · ... but it's very accustomed to gobbling up miles on long runs with ease. This is the shoe for you if …

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Day 3 - 112 miles (178) — RivardRides
Feb 3, 2018 · I pushed on, spinning at a steady tempo and gobbling up miles at a good pace. Around 1 p.m. I made ...
ImageAutoweek › drives › 2015-cadillac-...
2015 Cadillac Escalade review notes: Stepping out in style - Autoweek
Sep 15, 2015 · This baby runs silently and confidently down the highway, gobbling up miles. For the golf outing we ...
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Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 17:06
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2gobbling up miles
Darius Saczuk
3 +2eat up the miles
mike23
5to blast down
GosiaMB
3suck up the miles
geopiet


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
gobbling up miles


Explanation:
P

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Note added at 12 mins (2020-08-27 15:08:45 GMT)
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2014 World Cup - #WorldCupRank No. 37 Steven Gerrard of ...
Once he was the long-limbed dynamo, gobbling up miles of grass, firing from all areas and driving his teammates forward. Now he's a deep-lying playmaker, ...

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Note added at 13 mins (2020-08-27 15:09:45 GMT)
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Shoe Of The Week: New Balance Fresh Foam 1080 – PodiumRunner
Mar 2, 2016 · ... but it's very accustomed to gobbling up miles on long runs with ease. This is the shoe for you if …

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Note added at 14 mins (2020-08-27 15:11:01 GMT)
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Day 3 - 112 miles (178) — RivardRides
Feb 3, 2018 · I pushed on, spinning at a steady tempo and gobbling up miles at a good pace. Around 1 p.m. I made ...
ImageAutoweek › drives › 2015-cadillac-...
2015 Cadillac Escalade review notes: Stepping out in style - Autoweek
Sep 15, 2015 · This baby runs silently and confidently down the highway, gobbling up miles. For the golf outing we ...

Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 17:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 180

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  legato
1 day 7 hrs
  -> Dziękuję, Legato.

agree  Grzegorz Mysiński
3 days 4 hrs
  -> Dziękuję, Grzegorzu.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
eat up the miles


Explanation:
eat up big miles
eat up the miles

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This is a pretty regular occurrence on the trail, especially with the younger generation, as we older walkers have to get the miles in why we can, whereas the young ones eat up the miles at a pretty voracious pace, and so can afford to rest up in the shade!
https://www.walkingpeopleoutofpoverty.ca/blog/2018/7/20/what...

Mornings were my favorite. As I hiked I watched the earth wake up—first light filtering through the tree canopy or luminous light hitting the tree tops in the valley below. My feet seemed to eat up the miles and my brain was alive with deep thoughts.
https://wildliferecreation.org/72-hours-on-the-pacific-crest...

Pump up your tires and go for a ride. Check out one of the many mountain bike trails scattered throughout the state, or eat up the miles as you a ride down one of the many rail-trails that pass through the forests.
https://www.floridastateforests.org/Things_To_Do_in_State_Fo...

mike23
Poland
Local time: 23:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 47

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mateusz Izdebski
14 hrs
  -> Dziękuję.

agree  legato
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Dziękuję.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
suck up the miles


Explanation:
take your time, don't go sucking up all these miles, look around

geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 70
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to blast down


Explanation:
I do think "polykac kilometry" shouldn't be translated literary. I would say that rather a form of a local transcreation should be used. None of the phrases using words associated with eating sounds natural or IS in fact a good translation. "To blast down" simply means to travel/move very fast and, while expressed in different words, it does reflect the writer's intent.

Example sentence(s):
  • Nothing compares to blasting down a busy city street with friends, while everybody else is sitting in an office at work.
GosiaMB
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:06
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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