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
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
Grainy footage of a game of ice sledge hockey at the Paralympics filled the screen.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
They included Jesus Alvarez, 19, and Zelin Sierra, 29, who were using long-handled axes and 10-pound sledge hammers to break apart massive blocks of ice that had fallen off a red-tagged building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2023
Hopes of finding Sir Franklin in the area dimmed, but on one sledge trip, they spied a distant body of water that they believed to be the long-sought open polar sea.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
There was a three-line whip issued to attend a kick-about on the beach, where England were sledged by local radio DJs and mingled with other holidaymakers.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
The results showed that, although participants noted feeling more angry and distracted when sledged, it did not affect the overall shooting performance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019
He bowled the world’s highest, silliest bouncer and sledged it up loads while bowling at 70mph.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2015
He never sledged an opponent or dissented from an umpire's decision.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2013
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
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
England could not escape Australian sledging on their break from the Ashes series in the beach town of Noosa.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
The 22-year-old also showed his character by sledging Starc about his pace when India were 72-0.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
The team manager seemingly failed to mention anything about sledging some of the game's legends, however.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2023
They would carry sledging rations and biscuits for three days of travel.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
It is a Grand Anvil Chorus that these sturdy sledges are playing across the plains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Parents dragged their children home from school on sledges, and students mooched their way in and out of brightly-lit malls.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
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
It’s generally believed that the Egyptians moved massive stone blocks to the heights along large ramps, greased by water or wet clay, using a system of sledges, ropes, rollers, and levers.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 20, 2023
All the stores had been unloaded, sledges and dog teams had been hired and were waiting to go; everything was ready and nothing was moving.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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