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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

Flav was an official sponsor of the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams at the Milan-Cortina Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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

Laura and Mary heard the gay ringing of sleigh bells, growing louder every moment, and then the big bobsled came out of the woods and drove up to the gate.

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

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

Bobsleigh, luge and skeleton are among the fastest of Olympic sports, with bobsleds reaching speeds in excess of 150kph.

From Reuters ● Jan. 8, 2018

In a minute more the two bobsleds stood side by side, each with its load of passengers, and with Fred ready to push one to the front and Nick Carncross ready to shove the other.

From The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer

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

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

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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