tobogganing

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the pastime of sliding on a toboggan (def. 2).

Quotations

1849

. . . an amusement of which Canadian boys, and sometimes ladies too, are passionately fond . . . is called "toboggoning."

1887

I cannot conceive what there is in tobogganing to so fascinate the adult portion of both sexes in our 1886 humanity.

1966

The Gettys go in for backyard barbecues [and] tobogganing in the North Saskatchewan ravines. . . .