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bobsled

[bob-sled] / ˈbɒbˌslɛd /
NOUN
sled
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NOUN
toboggan
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Anschutz owns the Home Depot Center, where the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams train.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

The New York Times published stories several years ago about former bobsled and skeleton athletes who struggled with symptoms similar to what Person, Sisson and Baird describe.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

Elana Meyers Taylor took gold and Kaillie Humphries bronze in the women’s monobob bobsled competition Monday at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

A great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep, dangerous hour.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

For all of Team USA’s success with the BMW bobsleds — including four medals in Sochi — the partnership only yielded elite World Cup-caliber sleds.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2022

Cold-weather sports require gloves and goggles and helmets, duffel bags bulging with hockey sticks, rifles for biathletes and four-man bobsleds the size of grand pianos.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2022

It was the third time since the start of the 2017-18 season that American bobsleds grabbed both gold and silver in the same World Cup or Monobob World Series race.

From Seattle Times Nov. 20, 2021

In November 2014, Meyers Taylor and Humphries each piloted four-man bobsleds in a World Cup race.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2018

Forward went the two bobsleds, each steersman doing his best to guide his sled where running might be the easiest.

From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer

She told Olympics.com she’s returned to bobsledding in a “very different body,” but she feels motherhood has given her a new level of strength.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

Indeed, Herschel Walker’s athletic record made him a state icon—he’s not only a former college football and NFL star, but he once also competed on the Olympic bobsledding team.

From Slate Oct. 12, 2022

There was yet another battle — this one within the sport of bobsledding — that she and Meyers Taylor waged together.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2022

Humphries has been a dominant presence in women’s bobsledding for four Olympics now, the first three as Canada’s top female sled driver.

From Washington Post Feb. 13, 2022

"I used to do a lot of bobsledding myself," said the professor, who was well liked by nearly all the cadets.

From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer




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