Quote Originally Posted by HappyAnika View Post
Hmmm, last year's tour coverage said peloton was French for "ball". Google translate says its French for "group". Now I will have to look this up in my French dictionary tonight. DH and I liked "ball", we started calling our lab's tennis balls "pelotons" when we didn't want to say the word "ball" (since she knows the word "ball", and then you're in trouble).
I'm French canadian

Peloton is a group (of riders, also a military term)

Pelote is a ball (of yarn, of thread etc)