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Definition of Bobsled
1. Verb. Ride a bobsled. "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure"
Category relationships: Athletics, Sport
Generic synonyms: Sled, Sleigh
Derivative terms: Bob
2. Noun. Formerly two short sleds coupled together.
3. Noun. A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism.
Definition of Bobsled
1. n. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
Definition of Bobsled
1. Noun. The sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible. ¹
2. Noun. A sled used to go down a bob track. ¹
3. Verb. To ride a bobsled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bobsled
1. to ride on a bobsled (a racing sled) [v -SLEDDED, -SLEDDING, -SLEDS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobsled
Literary usage of Bobsled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Things with Simple Tools: A Book for Young Mechanics by Astra Cielo (1916)
"A good bobsled can be made of very inexpensive materials. Great care should be
taken, however, to have all the parts strong and firm, as a sled of this size ..."
2. Tobogganing on Crooked Runs by Harry Gibson, F. de B. Strickland (1894)
"Mr. S. Whitney introduced at Davos what is known as a bobsled. ... Mr. Whitney,
acting upon this assurance, commenced practising on his bobsled, ..."
3. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"For hauling logs a team of from four to eight oxen was yoked to a bobsled, a
short sled with a single bar upon which was placed a heary timber called a bunk ..."
4. Adventure Guide to the Alps by Krista Dana (2004)
"... bobsled rides on the Olympic ice track, winter visitors can hop aboard a rubber
boat for snow-rafting on the ski jump slope; toboggan down a moonlit run ..."
5. Adventure Guide to the Champlain & Hudson River Valleys by Patricia Foulke, Robert Foulke (2003)
"Nearby, Mount Van Hoevenberg offers new Olympic bobsled and luge runs as well
... We climbed onto a bobsled between a driver and a brakeman, hanging on to ..."
6. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Ernest Clark Hartwell (1921)
"Ted, who had been listening, suddenly spoke up: "Dad, why not let Gordon and me
take her to the village, on the bobsled? It's downhill most of the way. ..."
7. Adventure Guide Germany by Henk Bekker (2005)
"It is possible to hurtle down this course in a Bob-Raft - less high-tech, and
much less slick-looking than a real bobsled. In the Gästebob, three passengers ..."
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