(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.
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(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.
(v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.
(n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural.
(n.) The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.
(n.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.
(n.) Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.
(v. t.) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.
(v. i.) To take or get a supply of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
(4) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(5) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
(6) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(7) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(8) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(9) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(11) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(12) Erythema gyratum repens is a cutaneous eruption with a unique morphology resembling a wood grain pattern.
(13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(14) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(15) The paper has expanded its distribution to stations including St John's Wood and Putney.
(16) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
(17) I am being prayed for in the woods of northern California!
(18) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
(19) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(20) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.