What's the difference between bobsled and bobsleigh?

Bobsled


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bobsleigh

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
  • (2) The sports tested were indoor soccer, American football and ballet (professionals), outdoor soccer, basketball and wrestling (collegiate) and amateur bobsled.
  • (3) The signatories to the so-called "principle six" campaign – named after the clause in the Olympic charter that supposedly guarantees non-discrimination – include the American snowboarding gold medallist Seth Wescott, the Sochi-bound Canadian biathlete Rosanna Crawford and the Australian four-man bobsled team.
  • (4) So, as a pleasing antidote to all this multi-million pound nonsense, I implore you to read Andy Bull's piece on the 1932 US bobsled team .

Bobsleigh


Definition:

  • (n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And the training correlates well, so I should still be able to long jump.” Rutherford’s ambition is to become the second man in Olympic history – after the America Eddie Eagan, who won gold as a light-heavyweight boxer in 1920 and in the four-man bobsleigh in 1932 – to be a summer and winter Games champion.
  • (2) Yaffa relates that few criminal cases over corruption have been initiated; however, in June 2012 the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case against contractors at two venues – the main Fisht Olympic stadium, which will only be used for the opening and closing ceremonies, and the bobsleigh course.
  • (3) An additive radiological index of hip disease based on grades of subchondral sclerosis, osteophyte formation, and joint space narrowing was significantly increased among runners as compared with bobsleigh riders and untrained controls.
  • (4) The alleged losses to the state budget amounted to nearly $170m at the stadium and $75m at the bobsleigh venue.
  • (5) Eighty-eight patients suffered skiing injuries, 20 tobogganing injuries, and one injury each was caused by ski jumping and bobsleighing accidents, two traumas resulted from a fall from a chair lift.
  • (6) In adolescents there are most injuries during boxing, and during bobsleigh and sledge contents.
  • (7) Of course, there is the skeleton bobsleigh, but that’s hardly recreational, given that it involves racing down a lethal icy track at approaching 80mph.
  • (8) Three-time Olympic athlete Nathan Robertson – Silver, 2004 Athens Olympics, mixed doubles Donna Kellogg – Two-time European Doubles Gold [2000, 2006], two-time Olympic athlete BOBSLEIGH Nicola Minichiello – Gold, 2009 Lake Placid World Championships BOXING James DeGale – Gold, 2008 Beijing Olympics, middleweight CANOEING Tim Brabants - Gold, 2008 Beijing Olympics, K1 1000m Helen Reeves - Bronze, 2004 Athens Olympics Ian Wynne – Bronze, 2004 Athens Olympics, K1 500m CYCLING Jason Queally - Gold medal, 2000 Sydney Olympics.
  • (9) 27 Former long distance runners (mean age 42), nine former bobsleigh riders (mean age 42), and 23 normal, healthy, untrained men (mean age 35) who had been examined in 1973 and who agreed to re-examination in 1988.
  • (10) Sawyers has also showcased her explosive power in bobsleigh and, in her last jump, she unleashed its full extent with a season’s best 6.54 that stole silver from Nettey.
  • (11) After Tilda Swinton's ancient patroness bequeaths them a priceless painting, the unlikely pair become embroiled in a noir caper that could not be more Wes Anderson if it tried: nostalgia-tinted, gently charming yet unfolding at a breakneck pace, as if the miniature figures of an ornate doll's house have been brought to life and instructed to undertake all sorts of forgotten fun, from jail breaks and pistol fights to vertiginous chases down a mountainside on the back of a rickety bobsleigh.
  • (12) It was perhaps the most eagerly attended press conference of the Winter Olympics so far, and there was not a single Norwegian curler or Jamaican bobsleigh competitor in sight.
  • (13) For services to Bobsleigh, particularly Youth Training.
  • (14) It was important to do everything as best as you probably could.” All Britain’s previous Winter Olympic medals have come in events such as figure skating, bobsleigh and skeleton.

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