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toboggan

[tuh-bog-uhn] / təˈbɒg ən /
NOUN
long sled
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No, he said he told them, I don’t need a toboggan.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 13, 2024

Families race down a toboggan run that weaves through the forest and, when winter's here, there's even a small ski resort.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2023

Guests can then return to central Davos by foot, cable car or a free toboggan that mazes through forests straight out of a fairy tale.

From New York Times Jan. 14, 2023

“We want to overtake the toboggan powerhouse Germany and become No. 1 on the ice track,” Prock said.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2022

Then, of course, they would turn around and toboggan down the steps again.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

Scores of daytrippers from the capital, Santiago, took to skis, snowboards and toboggans to make the most of the thick powdery snow, with their faces obscured entirely by a combination of masks and goggles.

From Reuters Jul. 2, 2021

The best backcountry choices are the classics: toboggans, tubes and saucers.

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2017

The winners stepped forward to collect their trophies, which were shaped like miniature wooden toboggans.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2017

They offered swimming in the summer and toboggans during winter.

From Washington Times Aug. 8, 2015

And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

As he waited to be tobogganed down the mountain by ski patrol, she followed her children Moses and Apple down the mountain, testifying that she was accustomed to having things done for her.

From Seattle Times Mar. 31, 2023

Owens also said that Sanderson posted a “very happy, smiling picture” of himself online, being tobogganed down post-crash.

From Washington Times Mar. 21, 2023

Some of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons were those where the companions tobogganed through the woods.

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2017

By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin.

From Washington Post

The little black Adélies, with a shocking white ring around their eyes, made a comical sight for the crew as they tobogganed off the icebergs into the water.

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

There are river swims and pub visits to be enjoyed beneath Mount Buffalo, where in the colder months, tobogganing and skiing are popular.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

Snow Land is a little more interesting, with tobogganing penguins to avoid around its frozen lake.

From The Verge Aug. 8, 2022

Street tobogganing is just one of many memorable activities families can experience on the Portuguese island of Madeira, part of an archipelago of the same name that includes three other islands.

From Washington Post Aug. 4, 2022

Ice-skating, tobogganing, a particularly inglorious game of Red Rover: these are all things that took an unfavorable toll on my face.

From Salon Oct. 20, 2015

We’d get a piece of cardboard and go tobogganing down the depot’s narrow staircase.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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