toboggan
/təˈbɒɡ(ə)n
/noun
A long, light, narrow vehicle, typically on runners, used for sliding downhill over snow or ice.Then, my daughter slid off the toboggan head first into a snow bank, and when I pulled her out she took from her mouth her first missing tooth....
- In snow, it drove like a toboggan, but with worse steering.
- However, it is not yet clear if the New Year will start on a sufficiently white note to allow children in the Republic to dust off their snowboards and toboggans.
verb [no object] (usually go tobogganing)
Slide downhill over snow on a toboggan: my kids love to go tobogganing in the park before Christmas dinner we tobogganed down a steep hill nearby...
- She also enjoyed tobogganing down the Cresta Run.
- There were a group of older kids tobogganing down there, and residents said they were deliberately crashing into the trees.
- As the country was gripped by cold, children and adults were snowballing and tobogganing.
Derivatives
tobogganer
- He concentrated on the production of winter scenes, with skaters, sleighs, tobogganers, and people playing kolf (an early form of golf), which convey a sense of delight in the picturesque aspects of Dutch leisure in the 17th century.
- In winter it becomes a snowy playground where tobogganers sail down a 1,700-foot sledding track while others try out snowshoes or cross-country skis.
- Upon its completion in 1885 an invitation was extended to the neighbouring Davos tobogganers to come over for a race.
tobogganist
- Skiers, snowboarders, cross-country skiing enthusiasts, tobogganists and strollers rejoice in winter.
- The people from Turnbull Drive were there to complain about mysterious fireworks, shy lovers who shoot out street lights, and suicidal tobogganists as well as nutters who off-road in family sedans.
- Who needs sledging when you have got a team of tobogganists in your own head.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Canadian French tabaganne, from Micmac topaĝan 'sled'.
The origin of this word is Canadian French tabaganne, from the Micmac topaĝan ‘sled’.