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# toboggan

«toboggan» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long, narrow sledge without runners, with a curled-up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a toboggan, toboggans); verb (toboggan, toboggans, tobogganed, tobogganing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A toboggan is a long, narrow sledge without runners, with a curled-up front, used for sliding down snowy hills; in everyday use it is often any sledge or sled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#m1)

2) (verb) To toboggan means to slide down a snowy hill on a toboggan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#m2)

3) (Canada, some US areas, informal) A toboggan can also mean a knitted woolly hat (a tuque or beanie) in parts of the southern USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday winter life in Canada, the USA, the UK and Ireland, children toboggan on snow days. The toboggan came from the Indigenous peoples of Canada, and the word comes from the Mi'kmaq/Algonquian languages. Safety: go feet first, choose a slope away from roads, trees and ponds, and wear a helmet if you can. Phrases: "toboggan run", "toboggan hill", "go tobogganing".

### examples

- We took the toboggan to the big hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x1)
- Four of us fitted on the long toboggan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x2)
- They tobogganed down the slope screaming with joy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x3)
- The toboggan run was icy and fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x4)
- Indigenous peoples in Canada used toboggans to carry loads over snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x5)
- Stay away from the road with your toboggan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x6)
- In Tennessee, my cousin calls his woolly hat a toboggan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; verb is regular: tobogganed. Spelling: one b, two g's, double n in "tobogganing". In the UK people mostly say "sledge", in the USA "sled", in Canada "toboggan".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «toboggan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toboggan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.