sled
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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
For Hill, that transition from the sprints to a sled has allowed her to carry on a family tradition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Only one person competes, pushing the sled at the start and piloting down the course at speeds of 70 to 80 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
But he did not necessarily expect to be pushing a sled at another Winter Olympics.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Somebody was torn from his sled by the wind and the dogs blew thirty miles across the ice sideways and he didn’t find them for two days.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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But their partnership and matrimonial bliss dissolves as soon as their sleds hit the track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
The real stars of the Milan Cortina Games aren’t on skis or skates or even bombing downhill on sleds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Blame was laid firmly on their equipment - a risk was taken with their sleds and "it didn't pay off".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
As sleds descended the hills of Central Park, traders hunting for an edge ventured outside to take measurements of snowfall accumulation on parked cars.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
The exhausted band of sleds crept over the ice through another night, covering only two and a half miles.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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She and her sister skated on a frozen pond in the yard and sledded down the hills.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 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
The dead included an 8-month-old baby in a car that slipped off a suburban New Orleans road and a 6-year-old Virginia boy who sledded into a driver’s path.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
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
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And after some tough early sledding, it has grown into one of the top 10 leagues in the world, with five teams valued by Forbes at more than $1 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
There’s the remarkable Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries Armbruster, mothers in their 40s, in the medal mix once again in monobob sledding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
"There were so many highlights. My son enjoyed the dog sledding through the forest, he loved how fast they were going!"
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
The following winter, when they went sledding, Lexie and Trip and Moody slid shrieking down the hill, backward and belly first and three at a time and once—in Trip’s case—standing up like a surfer.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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