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bobsled

[bob-sled] / ˈbɒbˌslɛd /
NOUN
sled
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NOUN
toboggan
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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

Saturday’s medal was her sixth in Olympic bobsled competition.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 21, 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

Meyers Taylor’s earliest Olympic ambitions didn’t involve bobsled, ice, or even the winter Games.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

He was picking up speed, skidding downhill like a bobsled.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

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

In November 2014, Meyers Taylor and Humphries each piloted four-man bobsleds in a World Cup race.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 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

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

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

When she left softball, she joined the world of bobsledding, where she had some breathtaking victories and met her husband, fellow bobsledder Nic Taylor.

From Washington Post Feb. 14, 2022

Skating, bobsledding, skiing, and even walking, was taboo for a while, for there was more mud in sight than snow.

From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Carr, Annie Roe




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