diff --git a/ibis/backends/bigquery/registry.py b/ibis/backends/bigquery/registry.py
index 818521184aee..28f81458037d 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/bigquery/registry.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/bigquery/registry.py
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ def _clip(t, op):
     ops.Substring: _string_substring,
     ops.StrRight: _string_right,
     ops.Capitalize: _capitalize,
+    ops.Translate: fixed_arity("TRANSLATE", 3),
     ops.Repeat: fixed_arity("REPEAT", 2),
     ops.RegexSearch: _regex_search,
     ops.RegexExtract: _regex_extract,
@@ -658,7 +659,6 @@ def _clip(t, op):
 }
 
 _invalid_operations = {
-    ops.Translate,
     ops.FindInSet,
     ops.DateDiff,
     ops.TimestampDiff,
diff --git a/ibis/backends/tests/test_string.py b/ibis/backends/tests/test_string.py
index 9c0282eac1f6..22aac8a21d63 100644
--- a/ibis/backends/tests/test_string.py
+++ b/ibis/backends/tests/test_string.py
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ def test_string_col_is_unicode(alltypes, df):
             id='translate',
             marks=pytest.mark.notimpl(
                 [
-                    "bigquery",
                     "clickhouse",
                     "datafusion",
                     "duckdb",