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bobsled

[bob-sled] / ˈbɒbˌslɛd /
NOUN
sled
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NOUN
toboggan
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Lolo Jones won three world championships on the track and two in a bobsled.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

On Friday, Hill and O’Brien will complete their journeys when the two-woman bobsled competition gets underway at the Cortina Sliding Centre.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

She’d competed in both two-woman bobsled and monobob.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

A great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep, dangerous hour.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

For all of Team USA’s success with the BMW bobsleds — including four medals in Sochi — the partnership only yielded elite World Cup-caliber sleds.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2022

Cold-weather sports require gloves and goggles and helmets, duffel bags bulging with hockey sticks, rifles for biathletes and four-man bobsleds the size of grand pianos.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2022

Canada has typically had three women’s and two men’s bobsleds in World Cup events this season.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2021

Alexander Zubkov, driver of the winning two- and four-man bobsleds at Sochi, was one of the 11 athletes who lost their arbitration appeals.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2018

Joe rode the mare mule back to the post, harnessed the team and hitched them to one of Snedeker's bobsleds.

From The Lost Wagon by Kjelgaard, James Arthur

Michelle has her hopes, this fearless young woman who took to bobsledding on her second time down the track.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2026

While all share the commonality of being unconventional competitors in a space where they’re considered to be a rarity, bobsledding and ski jumping originated as European sports.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2024

Indeed, Herschel Walker’s athletic record made him a state icon—he’s not only a former college football and NFL star, but he once also competed on the Olympic bobsledding team.

From Slate Oct. 12, 2022

She also is the first woman to win three golds in bobsledding, with a chance for a fourth later this week in the two-person event.

From Seattle Times Feb. 13, 2022

My nephew just telephoned to know if he could take Nelson and Ruth bobsledding on the hill before dinner.

From Sunny Boy and His Playmates by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)




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