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toboggan

[tuh-bog-uhn] / təˈbɒg ən /
NOUN
long sled
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No, he said he told them, I don’t need a toboggan.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 13, 2024

Families race down a toboggan run that weaves through the forest and, when winter's here, there's even a small ski resort.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2023

Rave to ski patrol members Audrey and Chris, who provided on-site first aid, a quick toboggan ride to the first-aid station, medical assessment and incident reporting.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2023

At Sattel-Hochstuckli, Mr. Bissig opened the summer toboggan chutes for the Christmas tourist season.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2023

Silently, they placed their coiled ropes underneath them and sat in a line with their knees around the man in front—tobogganers with no toboggan.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Scores of daytrippers from the capital, Santiago, took to skis, snowboards and toboggans to make the most of the thick powdery snow, with their faces obscured entirely by a combination of masks and goggles.

From Reuters Jul. 2, 2021

The best backcountry choices are the classics: toboggans, tubes and saucers.

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2017

They offered swimming in the summer and toboggans during winter.

From Washington Times Aug. 8, 2015

The local council is always about to run out of grit, and our boiler is definitely jinxed, but come the first snowfall "we are out playing truant with the toboggans".

From The Guardian Mar. 8, 2013

“You could toboggan very well. Excellent Canadian toboggans are sold in Montreux. Ochs Brothers sell toboggans. They import their own toboggans.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

As he waited to be tobogganed down the mountain by ski patrol, she followed her children Moses and Apple down the mountain, testifying that she was accustomed to having things done for her.

From Seattle Times Mar. 31, 2023

Owens also said that Sanderson posted a “very happy, smiling picture” of himself online, being tobogganed down post-crash.

From Washington Times Mar. 21, 2023

Some of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons were those where the companions tobogganed through the woods.

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2017

By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin.

From Washington Post

Then it turned, and with outstretched flippers, tobogganed down on its white stomach.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2026

Snow Land is a little more interesting, with tobogganing penguins to avoid around its frozen lake.

From The Verge Aug. 8, 2022

Street tobogganing is just one of many memorable activities families can experience on the Portuguese island of Madeira, part of an archipelago of the same name that includes three other islands.

From Washington Post Aug. 4, 2022

Terry Scott Cohen, 42, enjoys roller coasters, mushing in Alaska and tobogganing in the Pyrenees Mountains.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2017

You may be thinking, and quite rightly, that after suggesting Whaleback Hill, followed by Double Whaleback Hill, to then suggest tobogganing down something called Baby Whaleback Hill would be somewhat less exciting, not more.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el




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