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bobsled

[bob-sled] / ˈbɒbˌslɛd /
NOUN
sled
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NOUN
toboggan
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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

Most of the Jamaican team in Cortina is made up of sprinters who couldn’t catch Usain Bolt, so they climbed in a bobsled instead.

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

She’d competed in both two-woman bobsled and monobob.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

So they all got into the big bobsled, cosy and warm, and Pa tucked the last robe well in around them.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Bodine helped create the “Bo-Dyn” project, one where the same principles that went into auto racing were turned into ways to build faster bobsleds.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2020

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

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2018

I hate winter for all the fun with skates and bobsleds.

From The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by Payton, Lieut. Howard

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

That adventurous afternoon on Pendragon Hill was the last chance the girls of Lakeview Hall had that term for bobsledding.

From Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways by Carr, Annie Roe




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