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Noun
Kids can dive into a full menu of watersports—kayaking, sailing, or zipping around the lake in a traditional boat—or head off-site for adventures like sliding down a 1.3-mile summer toboggan run or exploring the nearby salt mines.—Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025 In addition to golf, tennis and baseball facilities, it would be equipped with a swimming pool, a football stadium and a toboggan slide.—Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Verb
In winter, snowshoeing and tobogganing down the hill are added to the lineup.—Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025 One of the most recent photos in the exhibition, taken by an unknown artist in 1905, is a cyanotype depicting figures tobogganing on a hill in Massachusetts.—Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025 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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