Crossword clues for toboggan
toboggan
- Downhill racer
- Racing vehicle
- Boards curve upward in front
- A long narrow sled without runners
- Why one goes to an auction?
- Vehicle horse pulled back to marsh, initially
- Got upset about facilities on a new downhill ride
- Somehow got bag on sledge
- Slide head into garment that's old (and new)
- Sled with boards curved up in front
- Light sledge
- Snow vehicle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toboggan \To*bog"gan\, n. [Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled.] A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]
Toboggan \To*bog"gan\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tobogganed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Tobogganing.]
To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
--Barilett.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian French tabagane, from an Algonquian language, such as Maleseet /thapaken/. The verb is recorded from 1846. As American English colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one wore such a cap while tobogganing.
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 cargo. 3 (context North Carolina English) A winter hat or ski mask. 4 Something which, once it starts go downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom. vb. 1 To slide down a hill on a toboggan#noun or other object. 2 To figuratively go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
WordNet
n. a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front
v. move along on a luge or toboggan [syn: luge]
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 simple, traditional models to modern engineered composites. A toboggan differs from most sleds or sleighs in that it has no runners or skis (or only low ones) on the underside. The bottom of a toboggan rides directly on the snow. Some parks include designated toboggan hills where ordinary sleds are not allowed and which may include toboggan runs similar to bobsleigh courses.
The traditional toboggan is made of bound, parallel wood slats, all bent forward at the front to form a sideways 'J' shape. A thin rope is run through the top of the loop to provide rudimentary steering. The frontmost rider places their feet in the loop and sits on the flat bed; any others sit behind them and grasp the waist of the person before them.
Modern recreational toboggans are typically manufactured from wood or plastic. Larger, more rugged models are made for commercial or rescue use.
Image:snow_toboggan_snowy_mountains.jpg| A toboggan field, Perisher, Australia hill for tobogganing in the winter in Ahuntsic Park in Montrea.jpg|A hill for tobogganing in the winter in Ahuntsic Park in Montreal
Toboggan is the name of a steel roller coaster located at Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It is a portable steel coaster built by Chance Rides. The coaster had previously traveled in Florida with Deggeller Shows.
The Toboggan was a pair of roller coasters at Hersheypark. It stood in what was then known as Carrousel Circle from 1972 to 1977.
Toboggan may refer to:
- Toboggan, a sled
- Toboggan (BMX trick)
- Toboggan (Lakemont Park), a roller coaster
- Toboggan Handicap, a thoroughbred horse race
- Knit cap, called a "toboggan" in some regional dialects of the United States
- Tabagan, a ski resort located in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Toboggan was the name of a steel roller coaster located at Conneaut Lake Park in Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania. The ride was removed from the park in September 2014. It was located just outside the Midway area near the site of the former Dreamland Ballroom. Each car can hold two riders. The ride was removed from the park in September 2014, after sitting SBNO for seven years. It still remains on two trailers at the rear of the main parking lot.
Toboggan is a portable roller coaster that was built by Chance Industries from 1969 to the mid-1970s. The coaster features a small vehicle, holding two people, that climbs vertically inside a hollow steel tower then spirals back down around the same tower. There is a small section of track at the base of the tower with a few small dips and two turns to bring the ride vehicle back to the station. Each vehicle has a single rubber tire with a hydraulic clutch braking system that governs the speed of the vehicle as it descends the tower. The rubber tire engages a center rail that begins halfway through the first spiral. The ride stands 45 feet tall with a track length of 450 feet. A typical ride lasts approximately 70 seconds.
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.