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bobsled

[bob-sled] / ˈbɒbˌslɛd /
NOUN
sled
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NOUN
toboggan
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Anschutz owns the Home Depot Center, where the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams train.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

Shortly after taking a bobsled run with Team USA in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2009, Colbert described the experience.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

Last year, Flav was named the official hype man for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 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

So they all got into the big bobsled, cosy and warm, and Pa tucked the last robe well in around them.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Rocket technology has been incorporated into the designs of new Chinese bobsleds.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 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

Bodine helped create the “Bo-Dyn” project, one where the same principles that went into auto racing were turned into ways to build faster bobsleds.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2020

We hauled our sled up and up, constantly meeting bobsleds coming down and hearing the warning hoo-hoo-hooing of still others descending from the opaque upper mist.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

She told Olympics.com she’s returned to bobsledding in a “very different body,” but she feels motherhood has given her a new level of strength.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

But it’s also realistic to believe that Trinidad, just by being in the competition, is furthering something of a revolution in the Winter Olympics in general, and in bobsledding in particular.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2026

Kaysha Love is trying to pull off perhaps the most difficult transition in bobsledding, the one where a push athlete tries to become a driver.

From Seattle Times Nov. 23, 2023

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

That adventurous afternoon on Pendragon Hill was the last chance the girls of Lakeview Hall had that term for bobsledding.

From Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr




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