sledged; sledging
: to transport on a sledge
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
Heyerdahl demonstrated the technique’s feasibility in the nineteen-eighties, and more recently Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt have done the same, though others still argue for sledges or rollers.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Make your way down the slopes via velogemel, a snowbike that was invented and patented in the Jungfrau village of Grindelwald, or a sledge.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
Aggies brought a hammer, Horns brought a sledge.
—Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
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Besides the world-first maglev sledge system, the Jinan facility, operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Electrical Engineering, also supports advances in hypersonic flight, next-generation aerospace materials, and innovative space launch systems.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
Heyerdahl demonstrated the technique’s feasibility in the nineteen-eighties, and more recently Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt have done the same, though others still argue for sledges or rollers.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Make your way down the slopes via velogemel, a snowbike that was invented and patented in the Jungfrau village of Grindelwald, or a sledge.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
Aggies brought a hammer, Horns brought a sledge.
—Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
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“Sledge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sledge. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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sledge
1 of 3 nounsledge
2 of 3 noun
: a strong heavy sled
sledge
3 of 3 verb
sledged; sledging
: to travel with or transport on a sledge
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