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to toboggan

to toboggan

1 4.3
To slide down a snowy hill on a long sled
  • verb
  • /təˈbɑːɡən/
  • US
translation icon : tobogganear
  • Before these climbers got cold feet and decided to toboggan down the mountain, shouldn't somebody have thought about turning it on?

Examples

  • Where thermal activity along the shore of Yellowstone Lake opens up pools, otters will toboggan on the flat ice surface to open water a mile away.

    Academic text (1991)

  • During our vacation, we spent hours tobogganing on the nearby hills, laughing all the way.

  • In winter, we'd toboggan down the slope.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • she toboggans down the slope perhaps, it's just to clean her fur but it looks like sheer joy

    Earth (2007)

  • In the winter, children love to toboggan down the snowy hill in the park.

  • We took our toboggan and quickly tobogganed down the steep slope after the snowfall.

Synonyms

to ski
vsto toboggan
146 1.0

To move over snow on long narrow boards attached to your feet

uses a sitting or lying runner device, not individual standing equipment
to snowboard
vsto toboggan
  • UK
9 3.1

To glide down a snowy slope while standing on a short wide board

is done seated or lying on a runner vehicle rather than standing
to luge
vsto toboggan
  • UK
1 9.5

To ride a small sled feet first down an icy track at high speed

is a general downhill slide rather than a prone high speed race
to sledge
vsto toboggan
  • UK
5.1

To move people or goods over snow using a vehicle with runners

is about sliding downhill for fun rather than general transport
to bobsled
vsto toboggan
  • US
4.9

To ride in a long sled down an ice track with other people

is solo or simple sitting sliding, not a team racing vehicle

Compounds

toboggan cap
  • US
5.7

A close-fitting knitted hat with a hanging tail or pom-pom that you wear in cold weather

How Fast

to plummet
93 5.8
to race
91 1.0
to toboggan
  • US
1 4.3
to slide
716 1.0

Surface Forms

toboggan infinitive
tobogganed past
tobogganed past participle
tobogganing present participle
toboggans third person singular

Etymology

Toboggan as a verb comes from the same Indigenous word, used in Canadian French as tabagane, that named the sled, so to toboggan simply means 'to slide downhill on a toboggan'.