toboggan ((v.))

[< n.]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

ride on a toboggan; engage in tobogganing.

1846

. . . they tarboggined, slid and trudged about merrily in the deep, dry snow.

1913

"She went tobogganing out behind the fort at ten o'clock, with the missionary's wife."

2v.

transport on a toboggan (def. 1).

1907

After the hunting of big game it rests with the women and children to cut up the meat and toboggan it to camp.

3v.

slide like a toboggan (def. 2).

1928

Deeply loaded, both [canoes] had literally toboganed on the rocks all the way down the steep shallow rapid.

1938

Once we found otter tracks leading along a bank to a deep slide where they tobogganed down to a small rushing creek.

1964

. . . their youngsters, in the absence of snow, do belly floppers on the terrazzo floors and toboggan around on shopping carts.