(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.
Sled
Definition:
(n.) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called sledge.
(n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
(v. t.) To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two completely different total knee-endoprostheses (hinge type and sled or runner type) have been compared concerning construction and ability for take up or transmission of forces and moments.
(2) In order to assess the effect of extravestibular gravity receptors on perception and control of body position against that of the otoliths, the subject (S) is exposed to gravitoinertial forces along the spinal (Z) axis on a tiltable board and on a sled centrifuge.
(3) Eighteen young male subjects with NAMRL sled test experience to 15 G in --Gx acceleration were measured for physical characteristics of the head and neck and general body anthropometry.
(4) A Teflon sled, Proplast malar implant and ptosis correction acheived the desired results.
(5) No difference in risk of injury was found regarding the type of sled used, the number of children, or their position on the sled or for those children with a history of prior sledding experience.
(6) A state law enforcement agency, SLED, has taken over the investigation into the shooting along with the Justice Department and FBI.
(7) Each year, the winning team takes a special trip with him: this year’s winners will go dog-sledding on a glacier in Iceland; when Reilly and the DeAngeluses won in 2012, their team spent a weekend in a Scottish castle.
(8) These burs were tested utilizing custom-built equipment consisting of a frictionless air sled to which the Macor substrate was attached.
(9) In February he will leave northern Canada to trek more than 1,000km to the North Pole; what's different this time is that he is travelling with two fellow polar explorers, his friends Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, and they will be dragging with them not just food and repair kits but 100kg sleds each, laden with equipment to take up to 12m readings of the depth and density of snow and ice beneath their feet.
(10) Gross examination revealed that the sleds were secured in position until well encapsulated.
(11) Over 150 Navy enlisted men have been subjected to impact acceleration on a sled propelled by a nitrogen-powered horizontal accelerator.
(12) By a systematic analysis of the so called sled-prostheses is to be shown to differantiate between real sled-prostheses with rotation and sliding mobility and pseudo-sled-prostheses (better rotation-segment-prostheses).
(13) When the MAbs produced against CDV were tested, 37 of 39 antibodies reacted with a virus isolated from a sled dog diseased in an outbreak of distemper in Greenland prior to the epizootic among seals in the North Sea.
(14) Some were mounted in a rearward firing sled; others were placed in standard cars during collisions.
(15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
(16) They had provisions for several more weeks on the ice, the first leg of a year-long expedition (named "180 Degrees") from geomagnetic north pole to geomagnetic south pole by dog sledding, sailing and cycling.
(17) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
(18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
(19) Posterior fixation of the sled may be difficult, as the sled tends to migrate anteriorly.
(20) A canine distemper outbreak in a highly susceptible sled dog population of Northern Greenland was recognized in the beginning of January 1988.