A toboggan is a light wooden board with a curved front, used for travelling down hills on snow or ice.
toboggan in British English
(təˈbɒɡən)
noun
1.
a light wooden frame on runners used for sliding over snow and ice
2.
a long narrow sledge made of a thin board curved upwards and backwards at the front
verbWord forms: -gans, -ganing or -ganed
3. (intransitive)
to ride on a toboggan
Derived forms
tobogganer (toˈbogganer) or tobogganist (toˈbogganist)
noun
Word origin
C19: from Canadian French, from Algonquian; related to Abnaki udābāgan
toboggan in American English
(təˈbɑgən)
noun
1.
a long, narrow, flat sled without runners, made of thin boards curved back at the front end and oftenhaving side rails: often used for the sport of coasting down a prepared slope or chute
verb intransitive
2.
to coast, travel, etc. on a toboggan
3.
to decline rapidly
prices tobogganed
Derived forms
tobogganer (toˈbogganer)
noun or toˈbogganist
Word origin
CdnFr tabagan, tobagan < an Algonquian language: cf. Micmac topaĝan
Examples of 'toboggan' in a sentence
toboggan
Eddie said, `The sax player, Jeff, says although the funicular has gone, the thing to do is toboggan down from Monte.
Haines, Pamela THE GOLDEN LION (2002)
Your ramble is up the toboggan path and down by the stream through the pinewoods.
Brent-Dyer, Elinor CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL (2002)
Looked past the kitchen, at the hall to the bedroom where she'd paused Amy's slow-motion Fentanyl toboggan.
Chuck Logan ABSOLUTE ZERO (2002)
In other languages
toboggan
British English: toboggan /təˈbɒɡən/ NOUN
A toboggan is a light wooden board with a curved front, used for travelling down hills on snow or ice.