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gravity's favorite toy, weaponizing winter into the cheapest thrill a hill can offer
means A low vehicle on runners or smooth blades, used to slide across snow or ice — for hauling loads or for the pure joy of sliding downhill.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'sledde,' brought into English by the 14th century and tied to the old verb 'to slide.' It belongs to a whole frosty family of related words — 'sledge' and 'sleigh' are its close cousins, all descended from a Germanic root meaning to slip or glide smoothly along.
- olympic speed
- Skeleton sledders hit 80 mph face-first
- dog power
- Iditarod teams cover 1,000 frozen Alaskan miles
- ancient ride
- Egyptians sledged massive stones across wetted sand
- no brakes
- Steering is mostly hope and body weight
- citizen kane
- A childhood sled named Rosebud anchored cinema's biggest twist
iditarod — annual 1,000-mile dog sled race across alaska since 1973
skeleton at winter olympics — athlete piloting single-person sled headfirst down icy track at 90mph
st moritz cresta run — natural ice sled track in switzerland, oldest bobsled competition since 1884