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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

Through her research, she has learned he was an outdoorsman and with friends built a toboggan slide on the side of the mountain near their home.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2023

At Sattel-Hochstuckli, Mr. Bissig opened the summer toboggan chutes for the Christmas tourist season.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2023

After Woolf dismounted, Azucar butted him out of the way, ran over a spectator, slashed the NBC Radio wire—cutting off the national broadcast—and dragged his terrified groom down the track like a toboggan.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Summer brings sunbathers, picnickers and sixth-formers sat in circles, while in winter, on those rare occasions it snows, people drag in toboggans.

From The Guardian Mar. 5, 2020

Autumn is faded blue jeans, oversized sweatshirts and stringy toboggans from a forgotten day.

From Washington Times Sep. 26, 2018

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

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2017

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

Many people took the opportunity to build snowmen and enjoy a day of sledging, transforming hills across the country into tobogganing slopes.

From BBC Jan. 9, 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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