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toboggan

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Word definitions for toboggan in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A toboggan is a simple sled which is a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation. Designs vary from ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills. 2 (context North America English) A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport ...

Usage examples of toboggan.

The litde round hide-covered bullboats and the toboggans that the people kept on their roofs when not using them were being blown over and around the lodges and some bounced into the river.

World will feature a thrilling toboggan ride and a ski lodge where Moochie, Scooter and Danny will perform skits for the whole family.

As the villains gasped in astonishment, Violet sat down in the toboggan, grabbing the leather straps.

The aircraft was able to take off again after an HBC car penter named NValterjohnson fashioned a substitute out of toboggan boards held together with babiche-glue distilled from moose hoofs.

The world of Lake Henry was either sitting in front of a fire and taking its own calls, or was in church, or over at the mountain, where Ice Days had shifted for ski races, snowboard contests, and toboggan runs.

His legs were shaking under him, and he tried to ease the strain on them as they stopped and stood on an icy steep where if they once entirely let go of the travois where it was, it and his sister would toboggan down a giddy stretch of rubble and ice and soar high and wide on the winds before it fell.

Even that wild, defiant period of half-forced gaiety, which had ended in my toboggan accident, then seemed in my memory to be beautiful and colored in a paradisiacal way, like a lost land of pleasure, the echo of which still came across to me with bacchanal intoxication from the distance.

Spectacles, sweaters, tents, toboggan boards, towels, tools, twine and waders.

It did look like a dirt-smoothed toboggan run, one of hundreds that crisscrossed this section of tundra like an exposed labyrinth, like some indecipherable script left by aliens.

It had been almost midnight when she walked home through the driving rain, the park deserted save for a cluster of patrol cars parked in front of the pavilion and toboggan slide, their red and blue lights flashing.

In the center of his philtrum, the toboggan run in the center of his lip, there was a mole.

The Lenten fast, which was the one fast kept by all classes of society, began after Shrovetide, the most colourful of the Russian holidays, when everybody gorged themselves on pancakes and went for sleigh rides or tobogganing.

And there lay winter outside for ever, a great leaden winepress smashing down its colourless lid of sky, squashing them all like so many grapes, mashing colour and sense and being from everyone, save the children who fled on skis and toboggans down mirrored hills which reflected the crushing iron shield that hung lower above town each day and every eternal night.

With this brief and frenzied toboggan ride, I atoned for all my youthful overexuberance and foolhardiness.

She and the Mosebachs had gone tobogganing on the only hill that Pomerania boasted.