(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.
Ride
Definition:
(v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
(v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
(v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
(v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
(v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
(v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
(v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
(v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
(v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
(v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
(n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
(n.) A saddle horse.
(n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(3) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(4) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(5) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(6) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(8) For services to Business and the community in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
(9) Unless a leader is riding 20 points high in the polls, speculation will mount about their fitness for the job.
(10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(11) Didi Chuxing also claims it accounts for 87% of China’s ride-hailing market, in which US-based Uber is trying to break through.
(12) The voices in the soundtrack are those of real refugees who guide the viewer through the experience – from arriving in an unfamiliar city to acute worry for loved ones left behind, concern about not being allowed to work, and the Home Office interview on which so much rides .
(13) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
(14) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
(15) Conte’s tenure as national manager has been anything other than a smooth ride.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
(17) The ride-sharing story illustrates the promise of these new businesses – and the dangers.
(18) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(19) One team told her the sponsor had dropped out so she would have to ride for nothing.
(20) In addition, each ride has specific risk assessments to ensure that these processes are current.” He added: “As well as the daily assessment and testing, all rides are verified regularly by independent inspectors in compliance with the HSE guidelines for safe operation.