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Bobsled   /bˈɑbslˌɛd/   Listen
noun
Bobsleigh, Bobsled  n.  
1.
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed. (U. S.) "The long wagon body set on bobsleds."
2.
A long racing sled (for 2 or more people), having two pairs of runners, with the front pair connected to a steering mechanism. They are usually raced one at a time down a steeply sloping path or specially constructed chute, with sharp banked curves, and attain high speeds.
Synonyms: bobsled.






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"Bobsled" Quotes from Famous Books



... side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car.. bob, bobsled, bobsleigh[obs3]; cutter; double ripper, double runner [U.S.]; jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan. train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; 1st class train, 2nd class train, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... manuscript for his complete works. If at school Friday afternoon, he spoke a piece, "trippingly on the tongue," they harkened back over his ancestry to find the elder Adams of Massachusetts who was a great orator. When he drove a nail and made a creditable bobsled, they saw in him a future architect and stored the incident for the Romance that was to be biography. When he organized a baseball club, they saw in him the budding leadership that should make him a ruler of men. Even Grant's odd mania to take up the cause of ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... day was clear and calm, just right for taking pictures, and after breakfast the entire company went out on the hill where the bobsled race was to ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope

... actress, Betty," Bob told her when he came to claim the first dance. "I'm almost willing to let you steer the new bobsled ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson

... would in all probability be kidnaped by some acquaintance before he was half through and carried forty miles away for company's sake. About the only Homeburg resident who doesn't ride is old Auntie Morley, who broke her leg in a bobsled sixty years ago and has had a holy horror ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch



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