What's the difference between sled and toboggan?

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.

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.