sledge
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He later documented his journeys through India on elephant-back and across Siberia by sledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
"The sledge has got back. We heard the sad details. Jeff has badly bitten frostbitten hands. We are not taking any more risks to recover," the report reads the day after the accident.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
In the teams' most recent match, one Bedford player attempted to sledge back at Pollock, suggesting he would be back with the Blues on loan by October.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
There is hardly any snow at Asia’s largest ski terrain in Gulmarg where thousands of domestic and international tourists would usually visit to ski and sledge its stunning snowscape in winter.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
“Then I fancy we have seen him, for the day before we picked you up we saw some dogs drawing a sledge, with a man in it, across the ice.”
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Never one to take a backward step, Gill sledged James Anderson and Jonny Bairstow in a Test in India, while umpires have felt his presence when in charge at the IPL.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
He gets sledged from opponents for being a "reality superstar", while his own team-mates rib him for "whatever air-fryer I'm promoting on Instagram".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2021
He has navigated the Amazon and sledged across the Arctic.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2019
He bowled the world’s highest, silliest bouncer and sledged it up loads while bowling at 70mph.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2015
More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
There was no aggression thrown at them, no sledging, nothing to throw them off their stride.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
The mention of snow in our forecasts always pricks people ears up, whether it is the prospect of sledging and snowball fights, or the threat of travel disruption and school closures.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
When they arrived the resort "looked lovely", Mrs O'Neil said, and the family enjoyed their first afternoon there doing some sledging, snowball fights and snow angels.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
The 22-year-old also showed his character by sledging Starc about his pace when India were 72-0.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
It was hard sledging in that much-folded land, with more than my weight to pull, but the snow was thick and already growing firm, and I was in dothe.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
You could get by gondola up to the mouth of the Euclid trail, where the donkey trolleys dragged the sledges up toward Baldy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
In late March 1934, a convoy of tractors and sledges delivered Byrd’s supplies and his cabin to the site; Byrd flew in by plane.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2020
The Daily Telegraph has a more upbeat photo - of children out on their sledges.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2018
Elisha thought about abandoning ship and returning to Upernavik, Greenland, but worried that it was too late in the year to try to make the treacherous overland trip on sledges.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
