Crossword clues for luge
luge
- Olympic sport since 1964
- Winter Games sport
- Vehicle seen at the Winter Olympics
- Two-person sled
- Two-person racing sled
- Olympics glider
- Certain sled
- Bobsled cousin
- Winter racing vehicle
- Winter Games sled
- Winning word at the 1984 National Spelling Bee
- Vehicle for supine sledders
- Swift sled
- Supine sledder's ride
- Sports sled
- Sporting sled
- Sport where you lie down
- Sport timed to the thousandth of a second
- Sport people do lying down
- Sochi event
- Sled that can go 80+ mph
- Sled supinely
- Sled in the Olympics
- Sled in a chute
- Sled for two
- Race down a chute
- Olympics speeder
- Olympics event since 1964
- Olympic transport
- Olympic sport dominated by the Germans
- Olympic slider
- Olympic coaster
- Olympian's sled
- Move on a toboggan
- It has two runners on its base
- High-speed winter sports event
- High-speed sled
- Feet-first race
- Feet-first Olympic event
- Fast-paced Winter Olympics event
- Fast sled
- Cold downhill race
- Chute racer
- Bobsled's kin
- Bob's kin
- Bob's cousin
- Backsliding event?
- A'sledding we shall go
- Olympic vehicle
- Winter sport
- Bob's cousin?
- Racer on ice
- Fast sport
- Downhill racer
- Go downhill fast?
- Winter Olympics vehicle
- Olympic sled
- Winter Olympics event since 1964
- Winter Olympics sport
- Spill producer
- Olympic racer
- Sled at the Winter Olympics
- Olympics item ... or the winning word in the 1984 National Spelling Bee
- Race in a chute
- Downhill sport
- Olympic downhill event
- Olympic racing event
- Olympics racer
- Olympic event with singles, doubles and team relay
- A racing sled for one or two people
- Racing sled
- Small sled
- Vehicle for winter Olympics
- Toboggan for two
- Sledding event in the Winter Olympics
- Olympic event involving runners
- In this race, the runners are always behind
- Lillehammer event
- Olympic glider
- Sled for a chute
- Sled used by Swiss
- Alpine sled
- Winter Olympic race, introduced in 1964
- European sled
- Form of toboggan
- Light toboggan
- Racing toboggan
- Winter Olympics sled
- Olympics sledge
- Winter Games vehicle
- Winter Games event
- Winter Olympics gear
- Winter Olympics item
- Bobsled relative
- Winter racer
- Olympics vehicle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
luge \luge\ (l[=oo]zh), n. a racing sled for one or two people; it is raced down a chute of packed snow or ice, and the occupant(s) lie down on it with feet in the direction of motion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of small toboggan, 1905, from French luge "small coasting sled," from Savoy dialect, from Medieval Latin sludia "sled" (9c.), perhaps from a Gaulish word from the same root as English sled, slide.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back. 2 The sport of racing on luges. vb. To travel by luge
WordNet
n. a racing sled for one or two people
v. move along on a luge or toboggan [syn: toboggan]
Wikipedia
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21–25 kilograms (46–55 lb) for singles and 25–30 kilograms (55–66 lb) for doubles. Luge is also the name of an Olympic sport. Lugers can reach speeds of 140 km per hour (87 mph). Manuel Pfister of Austria, reached a top speed of 154 km per hour (95.69 mph) on the track in Whistler, Canada prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Lugers compete against a timer and on artificial tracks are timed to a thousandth of a second, making luge one of the most precisely timed sports in the world. The first recorded use of the term "luge" is 1905, from the Savoy/Swiss dialect of French "luge" meaning "small coasting sled", and is possibly from a Gaulish word with the same root as English sled. You can distinguish 2 different types of luge: artificial luge (called also olympic luge) and natural luge (world championships) with different sportvehicles and tracks.
Usage examples of "luge".
Copper, Malawar alone carried Luge, bearing him full across his shoulders, hauling him like a sack of potatoes through the deserted common room and along the darkened hallway to his room.
Now Luge continued to suffer his hangover, thirty-six hours after that portentous evening.
Crouching, Luge moved low between the benches until he reached the rail behind the shelter of several water barrels.
Still wondering why he was doing it, Luge dropped the bell over the side.
It was after this adjustment that the sailor, Luge, found himself at an oar, seated beside the gunwale of the longship.
For the first time, the crew remained active through the hours of darkness, and Luge had yet to perform his duty.
The beast had terrified Luge when he had first witnessed it in the flooding dome, and even then somehow it had reminded him of a black-bearded man who had come to him in The Black Salmon Inn.
But no one else imposes their torn laundry and tragic past on this dumb luge and kettle-bowling festival.
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.
There was a distinct slope that made forward progress not only possible, but unavoidable, so she lay in the position of a luge racer, except with her arms stretched up over her head because of the low roof, and let herself slide down after Abby.
Olympic bobsledder whistling down a luge chute, but the torrent repeatedly, insistently rolled me, pushing my face under the flow.
I tried to stay on my back, face up, rocketing along with the fatalism of an Olympic bobsledder whistling down a luge chute, but the torrent repeatedly, insistently rolled me, pushing my face under the flow.
Each morning, during a quiet period, quietly slip off your shoes, push your chair away from your desk, and engage in five minutes of gentle stretching, followed by five minutes each of toe touches, dressage, the luge, and the 400-meter butterfly.
The ice bar and vodka luges are a huge success and the only blight on the whole evening is when Lady Boswell manages to get her arm stuck to an ice sculpture.
That winter of 1927-8, there was a fairly large crowd for the Winter Sports, and if most of them found dancing and drinking more reasonable than going out into the cold for skiing and luging and skating why, that merely lessened all worry as to whether there was enough snow.