タイムアタック

Etymology

English, タイム (time) + アタック (attack), but not used to indicate a playthrough of a video game's dedicated mode for achieving fast completions (time attack), as one would expect; instead, it is the dominant terminology for both unassisted speedruns and tool-assisted speedruns in Japan (there is no commonly used loanword deriving from the term “speedrun”).

Noun

タイムアタック (rōmaji taimu atakku)

1. (video games) speedrun
2. (video games) tool-assisted speedrun

Verb

タイムアタックする (rōmaji taimu atakku suru)

1. (video games) speedrun

References

• "もりもと" (accessed 2006), “ホーム ページ”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, @nifty
• わいわい芸夢館 editors (2006), “わいわい芸夢館”, in (Please provide the title of the work)‎, @nifty, retrieved 2006