rush hour (countable and uncountable, plural rush hours)
- (idiomatic) The times of the day when traffic jams are commonplace, due mainly to people commuting to or from work.
It takes 30 minutes to drive there, but maybe 2 hours during the rush hour.
2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 48:Operation London Bridge, also from 1975, tells the story of the busy station's redevelopment. Cutting neatly from the barrow boys of Borough Market to an aerial view of Borough Market Junction, the film uses time lapse photography to show the congestion rife in the area during the morning rush hour.
times of day when traffic jams are commonplace, principally due to commuting
- Arabic: سَاعَة اَلذُّرْوَة f (sāʕat aḏ-ḏurwa)
- Armenian: պիկ ժամ (pik žam)
- Belarusian: гадзі́на пі́к f (hadzína pík)
- Catalan: hora punta f, hora pic f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 高峰時段／高峰时段 (gāofēng shíduàn), 繁忙時段／繁忙时段 (fánmáng shíduàn)
- Czech: dopravní špička f
- Danish: myldretid (da) c
- Dutch: spits (nl) m or f, spitsuur (nl) n
- Estonian: tipptund
- Finnish: ruuhka-aika (fi)
- French: heure de pointe (fr) f
- German: Stoßzeit (de) f, Hauptverkehrszeit f, Rushhour (de) f
- Hebrew: שְׁעַת שִׂיא f (she'át sí)
- Hungarian: csúcsforgalom (hu)
- Italian: ora di punta f
- Japanese: ラッシュ時 (rasshu-ji), ラッシュアワー (rasshu awā), 通勤ラッシュ (tsūkin rasshu)
- Korean: 러시아워 (ko) (reosiawo), 출퇴근 시간 (chultoegeun sigan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rushtid m or f
- Nynorsk: rushtid f
- Polish: godziny szczytu (pl) nvir
- Portuguese: horário de pico m (Brazil), hora do rush f (Brazil), hora de ponta f (Portugal)
- Romanian: oră de vârf f
- Russian: час пи́к (ru) m (čas pík)
- Spanish: hora del taco f (Chile), hora "peak" f (Chile), hora pico (es) f (Latin America), hora punta (es) f (Spain), hora de apuros f, hora pendularista f
- Swedish: rusningstid (sv) c, rusningstrafik (sv) c
- Tigrinya: መኪና ዝበዝሓሉ እዋን (mäkina zəbäzḥalu ʾəwan), ግዜ ዋሕዚ (gəze waḥzi)
- Ukrainian: годи́на пі́к f (hodýna pík)
- Vietnamese: giờ cao điểm
- Welsh: awr frys f
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