What's the difference between toboggan and tobogganing?

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.

Tobogganing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of 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.

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