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sled

[sled] / slɛd /
NOUN
sleigh
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The company’s global events can draw tens of thousands of athletes, testing their strength and endurance as they cycle through challenges like rowing, sandbag lunges, sled pushes and burpees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

He also was captured on a video posted to social media that showed him hitting a blocking sled at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Northern sled dogs became compact and heavily coated for cold conditions, while hunting dogs near the equator tended to be leaner and better suited to heat.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The actor added that he imagined turning the fictional home into a “movie fun house” where people could sled down the stairs just like Kevin does in the movie.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026

Moose are large, and essentially insane with an almost pathological hatred of the dogs, the sled, the musher, trees, trains, cars, and everything else as near as I can figure.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The 105 surviving crew members abandoned the vessels and began a desperate attempt to reach safety, traveling along the west coast of King William Island, Nunavut, while hauling boats on sleds.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

They are mounted on sleds and fired down a track to make sure they remain structurally sound when subjected to 16 times the force of gravity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Humphries and brakewoman Jasmine Jones, a former USC track star, finished third behind a pair of German sleds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

He later went on to become a four-time Olympian, and designed the sleds on which many of Britain's early skeleton medallists achieved their Olympic success.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Behind them came the other dog teams pulling sleds that were each loaded with 900 pounds of stores and gear.

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

The three spies soon parachuted successfully to the ground, landing in waist-high snow, and sledded downhill, heading toward Innsbruck.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

"I’ve been trying to juggle," she said as her 7-year-old sledded on the hill outside and her 4-year-old didn’t want to go out.

From Fox News ● Jan. 7, 2022

We sledded when we would’ve been chipping ice.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2021

After a soft landing, Mr. Mayer sledded down the glacier to a nearby town to begin his covert mission as a German soldier who had supposedly gotten lost.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2016

“We sledded all the way to Big Creek,” I told him.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

In warmer weather, you can rent kayaks, wave runners and paddleboards or take a seasonal cruise aboard the Lake Lawn Queen; winter brings cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, ice fishing and sledding.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The partnership between people and dogs became especially specialized in the Arctic, where Indigenous communities developed highly sophisticated cultures centered on dog sledding.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

While winning that case would be uphill sledding, the report may have ultimately been a useful development for him.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

Another side features a curving surface descending from the apex for winter sledding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

We went sledding in the park, built a snowman in the garden, threw snowballs at one another on the way to and from school.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo


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