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Bobsled

Bobsled \Bob"sled`\, Bobsleigh \Bob"sleigh`\, n.

  1. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. [U. S.]

    The long wagon body set on bobsleds.
    --W. D. Howells.

  2. a long racing sled (for 2 or more people), having two pairs of runners, with the front pair connected to a steering mechanism. They are usually raced one at a time down a steeply sloping path or specially constructed chute, with sharp banked curves, and attain high speeds.

    Syn: bobsled.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bobsled

1839, from bob (n.2) + sled (n.). So called because it is a short type.

Wiktionary
bobsled

n. 1 (context US and Canada English) A sled used to go down a bob track. 2 (context US and Canada English) The sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible. 3 A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; the compound sled so formed. vb. To ride a bobsled.

WordNet
bobsled

  1. n. formerly two short sleds coupled together [syn: bobsleigh]

  2. a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism [syn: bobsleigh, bob]

  3. v. ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure" [syn: bob]

Usage examples of "bobsled".

Override the controls on the mass driver from the central security computer and plow this bobsled into the back of an ore carrier.

After Alcatraz came the Island of Hawaii, with a volcano bobsled ride, an underwater submarine ride and a Polynesian restaurant.

So he stood there and watched through the crack in the door as they milled around the submarine ride for a minute and then moved off toward the fake mountain where the bobsled ride was.

The cart came to a stop just beyond the wax museum, in the middle among the submarine ride, the bobsled ride, the wax museum and the Alcatraz Island mess-hall restaurant.

He was intrigued and still frightened by the sense of being caught up in events as preordained as the course of a bobsled in a luge chute, but he was not surprised.

So the soldiers stepped on it, the APC started really rumbling down this lane like a bobsled, riding high up on curves as it tried to follow this winding lane.

The car flew downhill at what had to be close to a hundred miles per hour, veering smoothly one way or the other at forks in the road that were widened and banked like a concrete bobsled course.

For the next month I would have to take responsibility for the intensive care of those perched precariously on the edge of that slick bobsled ride down to death.

You will no doubt pass an uneventful though possibly somewhat boring day listening to Nita tell you how she won the bobsled race from Ghent to Aix.

Special Warfare Group One or Special Warfare Group Two, or been tasked with staging the SEAL regatta in Coronado or organizing the Navy Olympic bobsled team.

Auntie Morley, who broke her leg in a bobsled sixty years ago and has had a holy horror of speed ever since.

We were coming in a bobsled, but we got stuck in the snow in a slough.

Mountain ranges heave air upward, and then drop it like bobsleds down their far slopes.

They had two long bobsleds, the kind with wide, ski-type runners and a seat with a back on it.

Horton suggested we take bobsleds, in case you were hurt-as, in fact, you were.