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# sleigh

noun (a sleigh, sleighs); verb (sleigh, sleighs, sleighed, sleighing)

«sleigh» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A large sledge pulled by horses, reindeer or dogs, for carrying people or goods over snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m1)
2. Father Christmas's or Santa Claus's sleigh, pulled by reindeer in Christmas stories. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m2)
3. (verb) To ride in a sleigh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m3)
4. (slang) «Sleigh» is a joking Christmas spelling of slang «slay», meaning to do something brilliantly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#m4)

### In the lessons

In Christmas stories, songs («Jingle Bells», «Sleigh Ride») and cards Santa rides a sleigh with reindeer; in geography, sleighs are used in snowy places like Lapland, Canada and Alaska. In history, sleighs carried people across snow before cars.

### Examples

- Santa's sleigh is pulled by reindeer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x1)
- We rode in a horse-drawn sleigh in Lapland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x2)
- "Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh…" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x3)
- The sleigh bells jingled in the cold air. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x4)
- They loaded wood onto the sleigh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x5)
- (slang, Christmas joke) "Your jumper looks great — you sleigh!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x6)
- Then they went to the Lapland woman, who gave them new clothes and mended their sleigh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Sounds exactly like «slay» (to kill; in slang, to do brilliantly) — homophones. «eigh» says «ay» as in «eight». A smaller one for children is a «sledge» (UK) or «sled» (USA).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sleigh» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sleigh/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sleigh» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sleigh.html) on Mova free.