(n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
(n.) One who sails near the shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
(2) Thus for many, the IVF-ET procedures were like an emotional roller coaster on which they experienced a wide range of feelings during a brief period of time.
(3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
(4) The reality is that life’s a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
(5) Gift shops were selling artists' posters, greeting cards, mugs and coasters for a fraction of the price.
(6) Then, in an unrelated incident two weeks after the shooting, the town's famous Grade II listed roller-coaster, which featured in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, was subject to a major arson attack that destroyed almost a third of its frame.
(7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
(8) But it is the hosts who seem more anxious ahead of a potentially roller-coaster match against opponents of reliably relentless energy and craft.
(9) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
(10) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
(11) The diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor can thrust a patient and family onto an emotional roller coaster.
(12) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
(13) Then there are the plates, the coasters, the Christmas ornaments.
(14) The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.
(15) The news comes after a roller-coaster week for the president, who disappointed many with a lacklustre performance in the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney , before Friday brought encouraging news on the jobs front .
(16) A second fear survey which contained duplicate items from the first was administered to the same students in a laboratory setting prior to watching videotaped scenes of fish, rats, mice and a shorter roller coaster ride.
(17) Days after the roller-coaster was torched, two men strolled into the Tivoli arcade, one of the few remaining on the seafront, and doused its slot machines in petrol before setting them on fire, causing £500,000 of damage.
(18) That means the markets will go up and down like a roller coaster, and it will be hard to hold on.
(19) Tea is served on souvenir coasters from Manchester, the city she represents in parliament, and to which she returns each Friday.
(20) The roller-coaster is on prime land just behind Margate's sea front where a number of other buildings have been torched in mysterious circumstances.
Toboggan
Definition:
(n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
(v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tobogganers at Gallagher Park What’s the best place for a conversation?
(2) It functions as a pair of easy-to-use skis for walking uphill, then when it’s time to head down, it quickly transforms into a toboggan for riding safely and enjoyably back to the resort, perhaps even with a few powder turns along the way.
(3) Winning tip: Tobogganing in Zurich The best way to see Zurich is from the top of its own mini mountain, Uetliberg, from where you get a view of the whole city, the lake and the countryside with mountains in the distance.
(4) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
(5) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
(6) I was tobogganing with friends in the village, and we saw something astonishing in the sky: great columns of white light shifting and shimmering, breaking and floating away, rising from behind the hills.
(7) Another pupil, with whom he was racing on improvised toboggans, was killed when he hit a tree.
(8) By means of this score it can be shown that the most severe injuries occur during horse riding, skating, tobogganing and bicycle riding.
(9) In the Antarctic they lived in tents and spent 15 days travelling by motor toboggan.
(10) Tobogganing accidents caused injuries to the kidneys as well as to bladder and urethra.
(11) It’s particularly magical in winter when everything is dusted with snow and the toboggan run is open – two miles of downhill fun from Uetliberg to Triemli!
(12) 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.
(13) Twenty-four cases of vertebral column injuries associated with tobogganing accidents are presented.
(14) Beyond the festival, Geilo has plenty of other exciting winter activities, including snowshoeing, dog-sledding, tobogganing and fat biking.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The toboggan ride back from Monte.
(16) 51% of the accidents were caused by the typical winter sports: skiing, tobogganing, ice-skating and ski-jumping with skiing accounting for 75% of the accidents.
(17) The authors review the exceptional causes that may not be considered: drug anaphylaxis, to foods, hymenoptera, effort anaphylaxis, to hydatic antigens, to toboggans, to progesterone.
(18) In contrast to traumas caused by skiing, tobogganing injuries were mostly multiple.
(19) There's an outlandish car chase that, with Kara's cello case doubling as a toboggan, morphs into a yet more outlandish ski chase.
(20) We urge safer and better organization of tobogganing facilities.