sledge
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He later documented his journeys through India on elephant-back and across Siberia by sledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The court also heard that DNA, "likely to have been left by Mr Sheen" was found on a sledge hammer left in the toilet cubicle at the stately home.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
There is hardly any snow at Asia’s largest ski terrain in Gulmarg where thousands of domestic and international tourists would usually visit to ski and sledge its stunning snowscape in winter.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
That video of sledge hockey - now known as Para-ice hockey - lurked in her memory and so she went to her first session with the Cardiff Huskies.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
It was good to be released from forever pulling and pushing and hauling and prying that sledge, and I said so to Estraven as we went on.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mum Esther watched on as Charlotte, two, Daniel, six, and nine-year-old Iona joyfully sledged down a slope.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Never one to take a backward step, Gill sledged James Anderson and Jonny Bairstow in a Test in India, while umpires have felt his presence when in charge at the IPL.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
The results showed that, although participants noted feeling more angry and distracted when sledged, it did not affect the overall shooting performance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2019
He bowled the world’s highest, silliest bouncer and sledged it up loads while bowling at 70mph.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2015
More precious foodstores—cases of nuts, boxes of sugar, crates of barley, flour, and jam—were sledged back to the new camp, dubbed Ocean Camp by the men.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
There are, inevitably, cries of betrayal from Robert Jenrick's former colleagues, who are now indulging in the ritual sledging of his character.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
England could not escape Australian sledging on their break from the Ashes series in the beach town of Noosa.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
The mention of snow in our forecasts always pricks people ears up, whether it is the prospect of sledging and snowball fights, or the threat of travel disruption and school closures.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
When they arrived the resort "looked lovely", Mrs O'Neil said, and the family enjoyed their first afternoon there doing some sledging, snowball fights and snow angels.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
Frank Wild, his second-in-command, had been with him on his two previous journeys south and had spent a total of six years in Antarctica, logging more than 5,000 miles of sledging.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The players use sledges with two blades and two sticks to push themselves and handle the puck, and games consist of three 15-minute periods.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
You could get by gondola up to the mouth of the Euclid trail, where the donkey trolleys dragged the sledges up toward Baldy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
It’s generally believed that the Egyptians moved massive stone blocks to the heights along large ramps, greased by water or wet clay, using a system of sledges, ropes, rollers, and levers.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 20, 2023
Used only in Antarctica, the fuel is purchased and transported either via cargo plane or by Caterpillars that drive 1,100 miles from McMurdo, towing giant gut sacks of gas on giant sledges.
From Salon ● May 29, 2023
Once, it was said, they had quarried immense blocks of ice from frozen lakes deep in the haunted forest, dragging them south on sledges so the Wall might be raised ever higher.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
