bobsleigh

Bobsleighs [1]

Meanings

Noun

  • A sleigh for saw logs or heavy timber resting on two pairs of two short runners
  • A winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
  • The sled used in the sport of bobsleigh

Verb

  • To ride a bobsleigh.

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Origin

  • From bobs, the short runners on which the bobsleigh is based (as opposed to a usual sleigh on long runners continuing all the way along the vehicle); further etymology unclear. Attested since 1839 as bob-sled, long before the invention of the sport.

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