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Definition of Bobsleigh
1. Noun. Formerly two short sleds coupled together.
2. Noun. A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism.
Definition of Bobsleigh
1. Noun. A winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. ¹
2. Noun. The sled used in the sport of bobsleigh ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bobsleigh
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobsleigh
Literary usage of Bobsleigh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Switzerland: The Country and Its People by Clarence Rook, Effie Jardine (1907)
"Even with the bobsleigh the toilsome ascent must be made when the descent is
over, though it is cheered by the company of fellow sinners repenting gaily in ..."
2. Canada 2002 by Wayne C. Thompson (2003)
"This was the site of the ski- jumping, bobsleigh, luge, freestyle skiing and ...
The park offers the chance to try the Road Rocket (bobsleigh on wheels) in ..."
3. Western Canada by Paul-Eric Dumontier, Jennifer McMorran, Pierre Longnus (2004)
"This was the site of the ski-jumping, bobsleigh, luge, freestyle skiing and ...
The park offers the chance to try the Road Rocket (bobsleigh on wheels) in ..."
4. Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1922)
"The bobsleigh-rnn to Cresta is 1 M. long, the Kurverein Run 1/»M. Splendid ski-ing
on the Alpina (p. 426). Horse-races are held on the lake in January. ..."
5. Adventure Guide Germany by Henk Bekker (2005)
"... gives visitors the opportunity to go down the 1130-m (3616-foot) bobsleigh
track at speeds of up ..."