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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

Track athletes like Hill, 27, and O’Brien, 23, have a long history of success in bobsled, where speed and power at the start are important.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

At first she resisted, but last summer O’Brien decided she needed a rest from track “and bobsled seemed like a good alternative, so I took it up.”

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

He was picking up speed, skidding downhill like a bobsled.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

Canada has typically had three women’s and two men’s bobsleds in World Cup events this season.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 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

Kinney will compete with Sam Michener, Nick Cunningham and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, who played football at the University of Virginia at Wise, in one of Team USA’s three four-man bobsleds at the PyeongChang Games.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2018

The runaway would cross the foot of the hill just in time, perhaps, to collide with one or more of the bobsleds.

From The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude W. Morrison

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

Michelle has her hopes, this fearless young woman who took to bobsledding on her second time down the track.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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

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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