toboggan
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Shortly after finishing “Mildred Pierce,” in April 1945, while shooting “Danger Signal,” Blythe broke her back when a toboggan on which she was riding overturned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
Guests can then return to central Davos by foot, cable car or a free toboggan that mazes through forests straight out of a fairy tale.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
He should have remembered that penguins will toboggan whenever they get a chance.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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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
And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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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
The little black Adélies, with a shocking white ring around their eyes, made a comical sight for the crew as they tobogganed off the icebergs into the water.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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There are river swims and pub visits to be enjoyed beneath Mount Buffalo, where in the colder months, tobogganing and skiing are popular.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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
Ice-skating, tobogganing, a particularly inglorious game of Red Rover: these are all things that took an unfavorable toll on my face.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2015
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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