How to Use toboggan in a Sentence

toboggan

1 of 2 noun
  • The gem of City Forest in the winter are the beloved toboggan runs.
    Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Bring your own toboggan or rent one for the 350-foot trip down the lighted chute.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Bieber took the stage in a black toboggan, as box candles on the stadium screens bathed the arena floor in a soft glow.
    Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Once, after a blizzard, my dad placed my two younger brothers and me on a toboggan and tied the rope around his waist.
    Jenny Rough, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • You will be paired with a pro to patrol the slopes, learn how to handle a toboggan and practice rescues.
    Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This event’s snow area will feature a toboggan hill and toddler zone.
    Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Patrollers must be able to ski an 80-pound toboggan loaded with a large adult to safety.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Visitors could dance to a jazz band, spin in a Ferris wheel and ride on a water toboggan.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 June 2017
  • His body had to be loaded onto a toboggan and pulled by ski patrollers up to an area where it could be taken back to the base of the resort.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • For the more daring visitors, Mutianyu offers a toboggan ride to the bottom of the wall.
    Mei Zhang, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • But we are treated to the sight of a snowmobile pulling a toboggan with 10 fleeing people, heading back to the ship.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • For a different kind of drop, try the toboggan run at Waukesha’s Lowell Park.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The centerpiece of the event is the iced toboggan chute, which shoots contestants out onto a quarter-mile long runoff on the frozen Hosmer Pond.
    Outside Online, 23 Nov. 2022
  • One year our family Christmas gift was a wooden toboggan that could just about fit all six of us.
    Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 24 Nov. 2018
  • He was last seen wearing a red toboggan, red T-shirt, blue jeans, a black jacket and white shoes with red trim, officials said.
    Anna Beahm, AL.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • My most memorable adventure of 2022: Sledding down what’s claimed to be the longest toboggan run in the world.
    Rachel Schnalzeraudience Engagement Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Wildlife scurries through the prairie grasses, and the Millers have carved paths for toboggan rides and driving the four-wheeler with excited grandkids in tow.
    Ariel Cheung, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The Mets have been on their own hallucinogenic toboggan ride.
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • The Teams event also saw toboggan rows, handstand holds, and a number of odd object carries that hadn't been attempted in the past.
    Gabrielle Kassel, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Display cards on an antique shutter or door, and add height to a teeny Christmas tree with an old toboggan.
    Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Three police officers who were part of the human toboggan team on Floyd’s back are still uncharged.
    Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 31 May 2020
  • The wooden toboggan chute in Camden, Maine, is one of numerous chutes in existence in the country, not the only one.
    New York Times, 4 Dec. 2022
  • In this case a series of mistakes erased that margin of error, and the result was a F-22 Raptor that took its turn as the world’s most expensive toboggan.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
  • Don’t miss riding a toboggan down a 30-foot-high former ski jump onto frozen Mirror Lake.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 20 Jan. 2020
  • It other sled offerings, like the iconic wooden toboggan, still have rave reviews and will last for years to come.
    Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Folks have come here for decades, bringing toboggans and inner tubes and setting up chairs and snow picnics for a day of sliding, snowball fights and snowmen.
    Dino Vournas, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2017
  • Best of all is an informal tableau in black-and-white that shows Hazel Tardiff being taken off to the hospital on a toboggan pulled by smiling neighbors.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Keith Czeskleba said video surveillance showed the suspect to be a black male wearing a dark-colored hoodie and toboggan, and driving a white van.
    Carol Robinson, AL.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • After the women take a toboggan ride back down the mountain that basically amounts to riding a wicker bench down an asphalt street at 30 m.p.h.
    Jodi Walker, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Elsewhere, ice fishing derbies are canceling angling and toboggan chutes are screeching to a halt.
    Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
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toboggan

2 of 2 verb
  • The kids tobogganed down the hill.
  • There's even a place to toboggan in the county — and trails are open throughout the region for brisk, winter hikes.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The property provides easy access to skiing and tobogganing on the Wallberg.
    Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The main reason for my trip to this part of Bavaria, the large state that occupies Germany’s southeastern corner, was to indulge a curiosity about tobogganing.
    Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Getting There This corner of Germany is renowned for its medieval villages, fairy-tale castles, hearty food, and outdoor pursuits — especially tobogganing in the winter.
    Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The kids tobogganed down the hill.
  • There's even a place to toboggan in the county — and trails are open throughout the region for brisk, winter hikes.
    Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The property provides easy access to skiing and tobogganing on the Wallberg.
    Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The main reason for my trip to this part of Bavaria, the large state that occupies Germany’s southeastern corner, was to indulge a curiosity about tobogganing.
    Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Getting There This corner of Germany is renowned for its medieval villages, fairy-tale castles, hearty food, and outdoor pursuits — especially tobogganing in the winter.
    Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018

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