(n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
(2) Perhaps pop stars are simply too arch or self-conscious to write from the heart about their dreams of a white Christmas; with everybody having fun and Santa bringing that sleigh all along the Milky Way.
(3) In 2006, Woodhouse began filming Cameron for WebCameron but it stopped at the election; Parsons was the photographer who captured Cameron on a sleigh in Norway in 2006.
(4) Bob Sleigh, the leader of Solihull council, said: “The establishment of a combined authority gives us a unique opportunity to drive forward a series of objectives in support of economic growth and progressive public service reform.
(5) Oliver also suggests that Sedan have been led out at two recent Coupe de France finals by boars, while "FC Cologne has always employed a (real) goat as a mascot, I kid you not," chuckles Robert Sleigh.
(6) The Major Lazer producer had previously worked on Beyoncé's Run the World (Girls) single, and allegedly brought the singer and Sleigh Bells together in the studio .
(7) In a patient properly treated for a previous cavitary tuberculosis, we had the surprise, after hemoptyses, to find a sleigh-bell shaped picture suggesting an intra-cavitary aspergilloma with a very special mycosis with Allescheria Boydii.
(8) For screening purposes Griess'test modified by Sleigh was used.
(9) The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will open formally on Thursday, though late last month the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells, potholes filled the access roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings.
(10) According to Reuters, the couple rode in an old-fashioned sleigh drawn by three white horses.
(11) The only thing better than this news would be Santa driving an Aston Martin sleigh.” Spectre, which is due to open in UK cinemas on 23 October and in the US on 6 November next year, arrives with the spy saga at an all-time high in terms of critical cachet and box office clout.
(12) They trekked for a week across the frozen ocean in temperatures of -30C, each pulling heavy sleighs weighing 80kg behind them.
(13) So David Cameron went to Norway, drove a dog sleigh and posed for a picture.
(14) This case shows that the so-called "sleigh-bell" image is not pathognomic of aspergilloma and that this disease is far from being exceptional in Africa.
(15) One particularly triumphalist message doing the rounds across Belfast and beyond has a festive feel to it: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, the union flag has gone missing, the Huns smashed up the town as the crown rag came down, walking in a Fenian wonderland."
(16) New excursions being offered on all ships include a “mountain hike with husky” in Kirkenes (£80) to a reindeer sleighing trip with overnight stay in a Sami tent near Tromsø (£308).
(17) Six months before Santa shakes a sleigh bell, the toy store Hamleys is predicting which presents he will be loading up with this year.
(18) A seven-night Lakeside Auroras trip to Torassieppi with sleigh ride, ice fishing, snowshoe hike and husky safari costs £1,490pp, including dome supplement.
(19) We developed a highly sensitive procedure for assaying chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) enzyme activity in extracts of eukaryotic cells transfected with the CAT gene expression vector, by modification of the partition extraction procedure described by Sleigh [Anal.
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.