What is "sledding"

Usage examples of "sledding".

Dance that Verity felt like doing now was like the cocoon, in its quality of bliss, and even more like, she realized, the plain and constant bliss of Meetings, of a thousand Meetings, and the food she had been advertising at Shaker Hill had been a type of heaven, the heaven within every human brain, which could be reached through kinesis, through particular and repeated motion, sacred, movement as prayer, and she was moving and now the food was simply pure light, and memories of Blaze, of his arms around her one night in the snow when they had been out sledding and the moon was full and they were so very happy with Bear Creek rushing along beside them.

During the height of the warm weather, the thermocline was definite enough a division as to make for good sledding and for chilly passage.

During the height of the warm weather, the thermocline was so definite a division as to make for good sledding and for chilly passage.

By mid-afternoon, Johnny was out sledding with friends, Brody was at the office, and I had sung Kikit to sleep.

The priest had joined them sledding on Cuttys Hill and, to make up for the inevitably canceled camping trip, he had invited the boys for roasted hot dogs and marshmallows by the huge fireplace in the churchs rectory.

Then, today, while I was trying to clean up a little (mostly I'm too exhausted and dispirited to even try), I broke my mother's favorite plate, the one with the Currier & Ives sledding scene on it.

Where we used to go sledding, off Haggarty by the ravine, in grade school, remember?

And naturally, with the emphasis on the importance of the individual, anything that didn't produce immediate, obvious benefits had hard sledding.

It was hard sledding, for he was the kind of coward who's too far gone even to clutch at straws - not my kind of funk at all.

With the resident botanists, he came up with species well adapted for several days of warm rain with intermittent hard rain, interspersed with brilliant warm sunshine, followed by crisp autumnal days that caused the special trees to turn bright red and gold and drop their leaves before the snow that fell only on the lawns and in the mountains on the recreational portion of the moon, where residents and guests were provided with skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, sledding, and ski lodge activities.

If the Alliance for Progress requires that democracy in Peru become a fact instead of just a pleasant word, then the Alliance is in for rough sledding too.