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tobogganing

noun

  1. the act, art, or sport of riding a toboggan
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. The use of toboggans, historically for transport, but now usually for pleasure or for organised sport.

    “1876: Elisée Reclus, Ernest George Ravenstein, A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: The Universal Geography As elsewhere in Canada, winter is the festive season, given up to sledging, skating, "tobogganning," and other outdoor exhilarating amusements.”

    “Today's Olympic sport called luge is a form of tobogganing.”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of toboggan

    “A cascade of small, indignant girls were tobogganing sidewise down the incline.”

    “1916: William John Thomas, (John) Doran, Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, Notes and Queries I froze my toes some years ago, while tobogganing, and was unaware of it until I took off my shoe and walked across the room, when the unusual noise on the boards attracted my attention.”