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Tobogganing

noun
1.
Riding on a long light sled with low handrails.





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"Tobogganing" Quotes from Famous Books



... she had no intention of brooding on such a dull subject. What did her sister take her for? The weather was magnificent. She and the Mosebachs had gone tobogganing on the only hill that Pomerania boasted. It was fun, but overcrowded, for the rest of Pomerania had gone there too. Helen loved the country, and her letter glowed with physical exercise and poetry. She spoke of the scenery, quiet, yet august; ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster
... assailant's neck. Bones snapped as he applied the terrific muscles of his right arm and the brown man's muscles relaxed. Johnny's head and arms were free. With the speed of a wild-cat, he sprang to his feet, faced about, then, with a bounding leap, cleared the remaining assailant and went tobogganing down the hill. He had seen five others of the brown villains approaching. He had had enough for this ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell
... fearful joys of domestic tobogganing. You know how it is done—with the largest and best tea-tray and the surface of the stair carpet. It is best to do it on the days when the stair rods are being cleaned, and the carpet is only held by the nails at the top. Of course, it is one of the five or six thoroughly tip-top games ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit
... he has put runners on it, and is engaged in the pleasurable pastime of taking the ladies tobogganing down the ...
— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs
... trees! I should rather do without it than destroy a single one of the old beeches," averred Mrs. Hastings, who, having no children to enjoy the felicities of tobogganing, was not deeply ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson


Words linked to "Tobogganing" :   sledding, luging, toboggan


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