tobogganing

tobogganing
the use of toboggans, historically for transport, but now usually for pleasure or for organised sport.

As elsewhere in Canada, winter is the festive season, given up to sledging, skating, "tobogganning," and other outdoor exhilarating amusements.


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  • tobogganing — Sport of sliding down a snow covered hill on a toboggan, a long, flat bottomed sled made of thin boards curved up at the front end. The word is of Algonquian origin and probably refers to a towing sled. Tobogganing as a sport appears to have… …   Universalium

  • Tobogganing — Toboggan To*bog gan, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tobogganed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tobogganing}.] To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan. Barilett. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tobogganing — rogučių sportas statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Žiemos sporto šaka – greitasis leidimasis sportinėmis rogutėmis natūralia arba specialiai įrengta ledo trasa, turinčia vidutiniškai 15 viražų. Atsirado XIX a. pradžioje… …   Sporto terminų žodynas

  • tobogganing — noun Date: 1849 the act, art, or sport of riding a toboggan …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • tobogganing — to·bog·gan || tÉ™ bÉ‘gÉ™n / bÉ’g v. sled on snow in a toboggan (type of large sled) n. sled …   English contemporary dictionary

  • tobogganing — See: toboggan …   English dictionary

  • tobogganing —  n.m. Ensemble des sports de glisse tels que le bobsleigh, la luge et le skeleton …   Le dictionnaire des mots absents des autres dictionnaires

  • tobogganing — noun riding on a long light sled with low handrails • Derivationally related forms: ↑toboggan • Hypernyms: ↑sledding • Hyponyms: ↑luging …   Useful english dictionary

  • Federation internationale de bobsleigh et de tobogganing — Fédération internationale de bobsleigh et de tobogganing Fédération internationale de bobsleigh et de tobogganing Sigle …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Fédération Internationale De Bobsleigh Et De Tobogganing — Sigle …   Wikipédia en Français

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