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Definition of sled
1 : a vehicle usually on runners for transportation especially on snow or ice; especially : a small steerable one used especially by children for coasting down snow-covered hills
2 : rocket sled
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Recent Examples of sled from the Web
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Place a 45-pound plate on the ground and push the plate across the floor with your hands, dropping your hips for leverage, almost like a football player driving a blocking sled.
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Riders take a chairlift to the top before hopping into a sled.
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Its gyms are set up for people to work out like athletes with TRX machines, boxing bags and sleds that people can use for strength and running drills.
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The sled has also collected plenty of trash, some dating back two centuries.
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Unlike other slides at the park, the Kraken is the only slide riders go down head first on a mat with handles that resembles a snow sled.
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Musk estimated the sleds could cut a roughly 45-minute, 10-mile drive in traffic from Westwood to LAX airport down to five minutes.
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Finishing If the sled flips up, the tight end has done wrong, Orndoff said.
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According to Musk, these sleds will carry cars and their passengers at 125 mph, allowing Westwood residents to travel to LAX in just 5 minutes.
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Origin and Etymology of sled
Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch; akin to Old English slīdan to slide
sled
Definition of sled
sledded
;sledding
transitive verb
: sledge
intransitive verb
: to ride on a sled or sleigh
sledder
nounRecent Examples of sled from the Web
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Visits to a birch syrup maker, an oyster farm and the famous cooking school at Tutka Bay Lodge are interspersed with wilderness adventures including dog sledding on a glacier and wildlife watching.
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The giant dog and his tiny man have had many adventures together around scenic Minnesota – sledding down snowy hills, canoeing on glassy lakes, working farm fields together, even wearing smoking jackets and puffing on pipes.
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The property has been used for sledding since at least the 1920s.
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The idyllic alpine village is popular with sledders in the winter, who flock to the Preda Bergün sledding run.
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While too little flow can be about as much fun as sledding on flat gravel, too much flow can be dangerous or even deadly.
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This includes the playground, field and sledding hill, everything up to (but not including) the archway entrance area at the southeast corner of Coventry Road and Euclid Heights Boulevard.
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Winter will find visitors cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, ice fishing and ice skating.
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Sled hockey — known in Europe as sledge hockey — has been around since the 1960s and made its Paralympic Games debut in 1994.
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First Known Use of sled
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SLED Defined for English Language Learners
sled
playDefinition of sled for English Language Learners
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: a small vehicle that has a flat bottom or long, narrow strips of metal or wood on the bottom and that is used for moving over snow or ice
sled
Definition of sled for English Language Learners
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: to ride on a sled especially down a hill
SLED Defined for Kids
Definition of sled for Students
1 : a vehicle on runners for carrying loads especially over snow
2 : a small vehicle used mostly by children for sliding on snow and ice
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