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dogsled

[dawg-sled, dog-] / ˈdɔgˌslɛd, ˈdɒg- /
NOUN
sled
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The team flew from the capital Nuuk by propjet to Kulusuk, population 200, then traveled by dogsled to the edge of the ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The Sirius patrol, tasked with defending a huge, largely uninhabited swathe of the island in the northeast measuring 972,000 square km, travels across the ice by dogsled.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

Vance is set to visit Greenland from Thursday through Saturday to watch the island's national dogsled race and "celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity," the White House told CNN in a statement.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025

Announcing Mrs Vance's visit, the White House said the second lady would visit historical sites and attend the Avannaata Qimussersu, Greenland's national dogsled race.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

Captain Mills tells of two Indian women, one old enough to have a daughter of forty, who drove a dogsled one hundred and forty-eight miles from Providence to Rae, in four days.

From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

Donald Trump has ridiculed Denmark's defence of Greenland as amounting to "two dogsleds", but the Sirius Dogsled Patrol is no joke: the elite navy unit works in extreme conditions where only the toughest survive.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

"They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently."

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

Residents drive snow machines and all-terrain vehicles that have replaced dogsleds for hunting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

Ehrlich counterpoints the vision of a Greenland where dogsleds slip through melting ice with the tumultuous landscape of Zimbabwe, where the shifting climate is propelling mass extinctions.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2021

In the ship’s hold were stores for at least two years, including a recent innovation: concentrated Bovril sledging rations for the trans-Antarctic run on dogsleds.

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

From dogsledding races in Alaska to lobster festivals in Maine, rituals around the animals in our lives—be they predators, prey, beasts of burden or sources of entertainment—help us define what it means to be human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Squish Factor – The outhouse at the dogsledding camp was surprisingly roomy and very clean!

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025

The national park boasts more than 2 million acres of federally designated wilderness, and due to the deep snows of the Alaskan winter, dogsledding is one of the only ways to get around.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025

The pastor herself travels to celebrate services beyond the church – including once at Green Dog, a dogsledding outfit half a dozen miles from Longyearbyen in a broad valley.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

All aspects of sport and recreation on Svalbard feel the impact of a warming climate, from dogsledding to snowmobiling to skiing, fishing, hunting and glacier climbing.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2022




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