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# tobogganing

noun (tobogganing — uncountable); verb form (-ing of toboggan)

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

## Everyday

1. Tobogganing is the activity of sliding down snowy hills on a toboggan or sledge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#m1)
2. (sport) Tobogganing is also a winter sport of racing down icy tracks, related to luge and bobsleigh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday winter life children "go tobogganing" on snow days. In PE and the Winter Olympics, luge, skeleton and bobsleigh are racing kinds of tobogganing. Safety rules: feet first, one person at a time on small hills, avoid roads, trees, fences and frozen ponds, wear warm clothes and a helmet. Phrases: "go tobogganing", "tobogganing hill", "tobogganing accident".

### Examples

- We went tobogganing after school when it snowed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x1)
- Tobogganing is my favourite winter activity. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x2)
- The park banned tobogganing on the steep hill near the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x3)
- After tobogganing, we drank hot chocolate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x4)
- Luge is a fast kind of tobogganing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x5)
- Wear a helmet when you go tobogganing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x6)
- We were tobogganing until it got dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tobogganing/#x7)

### Note

Uncountable. Spelling: tobogganing (one b, two g's, two n's). UK people often say "sledging", US "sledding".

## On Mova

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