toboggan
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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
The wicker toboggan twisted and turned as we gained speed, with the “runners” purposely navigating within inches of walls or turning the basket so we slid sideways.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022
But before Duane could set the toboggan down for their great adventure ride to begin, Magic stuck out her paw to stop him.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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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
Her childhood was spent outdoors raking leaves and speeding through the countryside on sleds and toboggans, bikes and boats.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2021
Autumn is faded blue jeans, oversized sweatshirts and stringy toboggans from a forgotten day.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
The local council is always about to run out of grit, and our boiler is definitely jinxed, but come the first snowfall "we are out playing truant with the toboggans".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
“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
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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
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There are river swims and pub visits to be enjoyed beneath Mount Buffalo, where in the colder months, tobogganing and skiing are popular.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
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
We’d get a piece of cardboard and go tobogganing down the depot’s narrow staircase.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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