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sled

[sled] / slɛd /
NOUN
sleigh
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Hyrox sees participants alternate between running a kilometre and doing fitness exercises, including a sled push, burpee jumps, indoor rowing, and lunges while carrying a sandbag.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The further out you go, the cheaper the oil gets, a price curve shaped like a sled run.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

The company’s global events can draw tens of thousands of athletes, testing their strength and endurance as they cycle through challenges like rowing, sandbag lunges, sled pushes and burpees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In videos posted to social media, he also was captured hitting a blocking sled at UCLA, and going through speed and agility drills at the Rams’ facility in Woodland Hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

At one point I have a man sitting on my sled.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The 105 surviving crew members abandoned the vessels and began a desperate attempt to reach safety, traveling along the west coast of King William Island, Nunavut, while hauling boats on sleds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

They are mounted on sleds and fired down a track to make sure they remain structurally sound when subjected to 16 times the force of gravity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Competitors ski, push and pull sleds, row, burpee, lunge and throw heavy medicine balls at a target in an effort to finish in the fastest time.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Humphries and brakewoman Jasmine Jones, a former USC track star, finished third behind a pair of German sleds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

We threw ourselves down on our sleds and, yodeling our delight all the way, flew down the dipping curves, slicing new double-runner tracks.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

When a rare snowstorm canceled classes at Tulane last year, students sledded beneath the school’s iconic oak canopy and ran off to a block party by the campus bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“I showed him where we played hopscotch and sledded in winter,” she said.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2022

The family sledded and snowshoed in the backyard, which fronts a national forest.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022

"I’ve been trying to juggle," she said as her 7-year-old sledded on the hill outside and her 4-year-old didn’t want to go out.

From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2022

“We sledded all the way to Big Creek,” I told him.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

In warmer weather, you can rent kayaks, wave runners and paddleboards or take a seasonal cruise aboard the Lake Lawn Queen; winter brings cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, ice fishing and sledding.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The partnership between people and dogs became especially specialized in the Arctic, where Indigenous communities developed highly sophisticated cultures centered on dog sledding.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

While winning that case would be uphill sledding, the report may have ultimately been a useful development for him.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

Through their court filings, both recount head injuries sustained while sledding and lingering symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

And the hills on the golf course are awesome for sledding.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein


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