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dogsled

[dawg-sled, dog-] / ˈdɔgˌslɛd, ˈdɒg- /
NOUN
sled
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He has traveled across Greenland by dogsled, boat and helicopter to report on President Trump's pursuit of the island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

She plans to put wheels on her sled to continue running dogsled tours during the summer period.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

They were not invited, and the people of Greenland made that clear, forcing the second couple to cancel their initial plans to visit cultural sites and a dogsled race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025

Vance is set to visit Greenland from Thursday through Saturday to watch the island's national dogsled race and "celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity," the White House told CNN in a statement.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2025

Captain Mills tells of two Indian women, one old enough to have a daughter of forty, who drove a dogsled one hundred and forty-eight miles from Providence to Rae, in four days.

From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

Donald Trump has ridiculed Denmark's defence of Greenland as amounting to "two dogsleds", but the Sirius Dogsled Patrol is no joke: the elite navy unit works in extreme conditions where only the toughest survive.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

"They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently."

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026

Residents drive snow machines and all-terrain vehicles that have replaced dogsleds for hunting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022

She describes a traditional Ice Age way of life, in which elite marine-mammal hunters wearing skins and riding dogsleds provided food, tools and clothing for their community using methods passed on for 5,000 years.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2021

In the ship’s hold were stores for at least two years, including a recent innovation: concentrated Bovril sledging rations for the trans-Antarctic run on dogsleds.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

From dogsledding races in Alaska to lobster festivals in Maine, rituals around the animals in our lives—be they predators, prey, beasts of burden or sources of entertainment—help us define what it means to be human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Squish Factor – The outhouse at the dogsledding camp was surprisingly roomy and very clean!

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025

The national park boasts more than 2 million acres of federally designated wilderness, and due to the deep snows of the Alaskan winter, dogsledding is one of the only ways to get around.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025

“A muddy winter, I can’t live in that,” said Bernlow, who runs dogsledding outfit Green Dog with her family in a broad valley outside Longyearbyen.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

All aspects of sport and recreation on Svalbard feel the impact of a warming climate, from dogsledding to snowmobiling to skiing, fishing, hunting and glacier climbing.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2022


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