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Noun
The sounds are coming from the toboggan slide Au 1884, named for the year it was built on the nearby Dufferin Terrace.—Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Breckenridge Ski Patrol arrived at around 9:20 a.m. and took him by toboggan to the bottom of the mountain, where he was loaded into an ambulance.—Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
Spread over hundreds of acres of forest along the Lake Michigan shoreline, students played sports and tobogganed through snowdrifts.—Mitra Taj, New York Times, 17 May 2025 The park also has tobogganing hills which can reach up to 60 mph.—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 25 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for toboggan
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Canadian French tobogan, of Algonquian origin; akin to Micmac tobâgun drag made of skin
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