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toboggan

[tuh-bog-uhn] / təˈbɒg ən /
NOUN
long sled
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No, he said he told them, I don’t need a toboggan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

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

At Sattel-Hochstuckli, Mr. Bissig opened the summer toboggan chutes for the Christmas tourist season.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2023

“We want to overtake the toboggan powerhouse Germany and become No. 1 on the ice track,” Prock said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

“Tobogganing,” he said, “requires a special piste. You could not toboggan into the streets of Montreux. Where are you stopping here?”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

Autumn is faded blue jeans, oversized sweatshirts and stringy toboggans from a forgotten day.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

The best backcountry choices are the classics: toboggans, tubes and saucers.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2017

The winners stepped forward to collect their trophies, which were shaped like miniature wooden toboggans.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2017

“You could toboggan very well. Excellent Canadian toboggans are sold in Montreux. Ochs Brothers sell toboggans. They import their own toboggans.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

A boat broke loose and tobogganed up on the shore, and then another.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Each year Ottawa, Canada's capital city, hosts a Winterlude festival that celebrates the fun that snow and ice can bring, with tobogganing and ice sculptures, as well as skating along the canal.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023

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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