toboggan
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- noun
- /təˈbɑɡən/
- UK
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trineo
- During winter, many families enjoy a fun day out using a toboggan at the local sledding hill.
- toboggan sleds
- toboggan run
- toboggan ride
But I come running downstairs and I see this giant toboggan filling out the couch and I'm like, I got a toboggan.
- But I come running downstairs and I see this giant toboggan filling out the couch and I'm like, I got a toboggan.
Examples
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The crunch of footsteps breaking through the snow announced two young boys who burst through the tree line with a toboggan skimming along behind them.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's like we all get onto a toboggan on top of a very snowy bank and we jump on and we're going for a ride.
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We need a toboggan and a back board!
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This is, Oh my God, this would be great if we had a toboggan we could slide down here.
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I think my favorite course of all time has to be the Am National Toboggan course up in Michigan.
Blog text (29) -
And what better way to say "Yay, winter" than with a good, old-fashioned toboggan ride?
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We quickly fished out the dry socks and mittens, wrapped the boys in the blankets, gave them hot coffee and food, loaded them onto their toboggan, and tugged them down the mountain.
Fiction book (1996) -
The children had a blast flying down the hill on their toboggan.
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She packed her toboggan in the car for their weekend trip to the snowy mountains.
Compounds
- US
A close-fitting knitted hat with a hanging tail or pom-pom that you wear in cold weather
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Etymology
Toboggan comes from an Indigenous North American word, seen in Canadian French as tabagane, which meant 'a sled'. So the name stuck and is still used for the long, curved sled without runners that you slide on snow.