Human-powered vehicles

thumb|A loaded dogsled thumb|Children with their sled, 1903 A sled, sledge, or sleigh is a vehicle that slides across a surface, usually of ice or snow. It is built with a smooth underside or a separate body supported by runners that reduce friction with the surface. Some designs are pulled by humans, animals, or machines to transport passengers or cargo across relatively level ground. Others are designed to travel downhill for recreation or competition. Terminology varies by region, for example "sled", "sledge", and "sleigh" have different common uses in British, American, and Australian Engl

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which individual athletes or teams of two to four athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (formerly the FIBT).

thumb|Horse and cart (England, 2013) thumb|Dockworkers and hand cart (Haiti, 2006) A cart is a two-wheeled vehicle designed for transport. It can be pulled by humans or draught animals such as horses, donkeys, mules and oxen, or smaller animals such as goats and large dogs.

thumb|Pulled rickshaws in Japan ()

thumb|250px|right|Doubles luge, Myroslav and Ivan Lenko at the 2022 2022–23 Luge World Cup|Luge World Cup trainings

human-powered land vehicle without saddle

human-powered wheelless vehicle for the transport of persons

A tricycle, sometimes abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gasoline or electric motor-powered or assisted, or gravity-powered) three-wheeled vehicle.

right|thumb|upright|A man pushing a baby in a stroller while jogging. A stroller, also known as a pushchair or buggy (British English), is a wheeled device used for transporting infants and young children. Strollers can have a variety of features such as cup holders, a storage basket, or the ability to carry multiple children.

A velomobile (), velomobiel, velo, or bicycle car is a human-powered vehicle (HPV) enclosed for aerodynamic advantage and/or protection from weather and collisions. Velomobiles are similar to recumbent bicycles, pedal go-karts and tricycles, but with a full fairing (aerodynamic or weather protective shell) and are not to be confused with purpose-built mobiles for speed records. Fully faired vehicles with two wheels are generally called Streamliners and have set many speed and distance records.

thumb|A galleass of the 1588 Spanish Armada

A toboggan is a simple sled used in snowy winter recreation. It is also a traditional form of cargo transport used by the Innu, Cree and Ojibwe of North America, sometimes part of a dog train. thumb|Illustration of a toboggan It is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation, or as a rescue sled. Designs vary from simple, traditional models to modern engineered composites. A toboggan differs from most sleds or sleighs in that it has no runners or skis (or only low ones) on the underside. The bottom of a toboggan rides directly on the snow

ancient Chinese two-wheeled vehicle

thumb|Cheyenne family using a horse-drawn travois, 1890.

thumb|right|Handcycle with high stance and upright riding position thumb|right|Handcycle with low stance and recumbent riding position

training bicycle for children

thumb|Young man pushing a chukudu in North Kivu. thumb|Transporting bananas by and riding a chukudu in North Kivu. thumb|Transporting fresh produce at a military checkpoint in Goma. The chukudu (or chikudu, chokoudou, tshukudu) is a two-wheeled handmade vehicle used in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is made of wood, and is used for transporting cargo.

two-wheeled, human-powered land vehicle

thumb|Modern kicksled with child passenger thumb|Kicksleds in Sweden, 1922 The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ( or in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back. Kicksled is a direct translation of the Finnish word . Estonian calls it either a 'pushsled' () or 'Finnish sled' (). Some other possible translations are kicker and chair-sled.

special stilts that allow the user to run, jump and perform various acrobatics

A pulk (, , ; ; from ) is originally a Nordic term for a low-slung boat-like sled, sometimes without runners, capable of being pulled by hand on foot or skis, or by light draft animals such as dogs or reindeer. A toboggan could be called a pulk. They are classically made out of wood and other natural materials but are nowadays made of plastic, which makes them inexpensive.

thumb|A Navajo-style cradleboard thumb|right|A Skolts|Skolt Sámi mother with her child in a ǩiõtkâm Cradleboards (, Navajo: awéétsʼáál, , , , , Kazakh: бесік, Kyrgyz: бешік) are traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America, throughout northern Scandinavia among the Sámi, and in the traditionally nomadic cultures of Central Asia. There are a variety of styles of cradleboard. Many Central Asian communities and some indigenous communities in North America still use cradleboards.

A snakeboard, also known as a streetboard, is a type of skateboard invented in South Africa in 1989 by James Fisher, Simon King and Oliver Macleod Smith. The concept was to fuse the original skateboard with elements of snowboarding and surfing to create a fun riding experience. The first prototype was constructed using two square wooden boards, an old roller skate chopped in half, and a piece of plumbing pipe to join them together. Many variants were tried before manufacturing began. The first boards to be mass-produced were made from a strong plastic nylon known as Zytel ST801.

thumb|upright=1|right|3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track upright=1|thumb|right|Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, gandy dancer cart, '''platelayers' cart, draisine, or railbike''') is a railroad car powered by its passengers or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a railway maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases.

form of freight transport

thumb|right|Water velocipede, c. 1877 thumb|right|Man operating water tricycle, probably early 20th Century thumb|right|A Hydrobike brand hydrocycle thumb|Modern pedal catamaran with propeller drive (Germany, 1999). A hydrocycle is a bicycle-like watercraft. The concept was known in the 1870s as a water velocipede and the name was in use by the late 1890s.

thumb|The Trikke works by shifting body weight thumb|Two Trikkes thumb|Video of Trikke climbing a hill

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small boat for anglers

Airboard is basically a sled for one

thumb|240px|Group portrait of a woman in a , two bearers and a man using a carrying pole. Felice Beato, between 1863 and 1877 A is a type of litter used as a means of human transportation by the non-samurai class in feudal Japan and into the Meiji period (1868–1911).

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small hydrofoil watercraft

Dutch cyclist

ambulation aid

300px|thumb|upright 2|Sandolo in Canal Grande thumb|A sandolo thumb|Sandolo, detail. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1969 The sandolo is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat designed for the generally shallow waters of the Venetian Lagoon. The Italian plural is sandoli. ==Description== A sandolo is less ornate and of a simpler build than a gondola, but both have a pointed, decorated metal nose. It is also lighter and smaller than a gondola, and can be recognized at a glance, as it always lacks the benches and high steel prow (called ferro) which is seen on a gondola. The sandolo, like the l

modern reconstruction of an ancient Greek rowing warship

ceremonial litter used by Ga chiefs and subchiefs in Ghana

three-wheeled decorated passenger vehicle pulled by one person featured in Dhaka and Bangladesh

thumb|A single Shweeb car Shweeb is a proposed personal rapid transit network in New Zealand, based on human-powered monorail cars. The project prototype was originally designed and implemented in Rotorua, New Zealand, as a leisure attraction. The name is a reference to the German "zu schweben" meaning "to hang/hover/levitate", and indirectly to the suspended monorail Schwebebahn Wuppertal.