toboggan
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No, he said he told them, I don’t need a toboggan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Families race down a toboggan run that weaves through the forest and, when winter's here, there's even a small ski resort.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023
Rave to ski patrol members Audrey and Chris, who provided on-site first aid, a quick toboggan ride to the first-aid station, medical assessment and incident reporting.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Guests can then return to central Davos by foot, cable car or a free toboggan that mazes through forests straight out of a fairy tale.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
Duane was leaning every which way to keep the toboggan upright and to keep himself from injury.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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This Fremont ski bar has snowboards and toboggans adorning the walls, setting the mood while you sing sweet melodies.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
Scores of daytrippers from the capital, Santiago, took to skis, snowboards and toboggans to make the most of the thick powdery snow, with their faces obscured entirely by a combination of masks and goggles.
From Reuters ● Jul. 2, 2021
Her childhood was spent outdoors raking leaves and speeding through the countryside on sleds and toboggans, bikes and boats.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2021
Summer brings sunbathers, picnickers and sixth-formers sat in circles, while in winter, on those rare occasions it snows, people drag in toboggans.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2020
“You could toboggan very well. Excellent Canadian toboggans are sold in Montreux. Ochs Brothers sell toboggans. They import their own toboggans.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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As he waited to be tobogganed down the mountain by ski patrol, she followed her children Moses and Apple down the mountain, testifying that she was accustomed to having things done for her.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Owens also said that Sanderson posted a “very happy, smiling picture” of himself online, being tobogganed down post-crash.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
Some of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons were those where the companions tobogganed through the woods.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2017
By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin.
From Washington Post
A boat broke loose and tobogganed up on the shore, and then another.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Snow Land is a little more interesting, with tobogganing penguins to avoid around its frozen lake.
From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022
Street tobogganing is just one of many memorable activities families can experience on the Portuguese island of Madeira, part of an archipelago of the same name that includes three other islands.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022
Terry Scott Cohen, 42, enjoys roller coasters, mushing in Alaska and tobogganing in the Pyrenees Mountains.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2017
We’d get a piece of cardboard and go tobogganing down the depot’s narrow staircase.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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