toboggan

Etymology
The noun is attested since 1829, the verb since 1846. Both derive from, which derives from an word, probably  or , influenced by similar words in other Eastern Canadian Algonquian languages. The sense of "hat" is recorded since 1929 and is short for (1928), a cap suitable for wearing while tobogganing.

Noun

 * 1) A long sled without runners, with the front end curled upwards, which may be pulled across snow by a cord or used to coast down hills.
 * 2)  A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
 * 3)  Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
 * 4) * 1907, Joe Vila, The Sporting News, read in Gordon H. Fleming, The Unforgettable Season (2006):
 * "en"
 * 1)  A similar sled of wood, pulled by dogs, possibly with steel runners, made to transport cargo.
 * 2)  Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
 * 3) * 1907, Joe Vila, The Sporting News, read in Gordon H. Fleming, The Unforgettable Season (2006):
 * "en"
 * 1)  Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
 * 2) * 1907, Joe Vila, The Sporting News, read in Gordon H. Fleming, The Unforgettable Season (2006):
 * "en"
 * 1)  Something which, once it starts going (figuratively) downhill, is unstoppable until it reaches the bottom.
 * 2) * 1907, Joe Vila, The Sporting News, read in Gordon H. Fleming, The Unforgettable Season (2006):
 * "en"

- McGinnity began to hit the toboggan in 1906, after he had pitched his arm off the previous year. Last season his efforts at times were painful.


 * 1)  A, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
 * 1)  A, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
 * 1)  A, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
 * 1)  A, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
 * 1)  A, designed to provide warmth in cold weather.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: тобоган
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Toboggan
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: トボガン, トボガンぞり
 * Maori: panunu, pānukunuku
 * Ojibwe: zhooshkodaabaan
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: tobogan, sled


 * Finnish: koirareki,


 * Finnish:

Verb



 * 1) To slide down a hill on a toboggan or other object.
 * 2)  To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
 * 3) * 1945, US House of Representatives, 1945 extension of the Reciprocal trade agreements act: hearings before the Committee on finance, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3240, an act to extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff act of 1930, as amended, and for other purposes:
 * "en"
 * 1)  To go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
 * 2) * 1945, US House of Representatives, 1945 extension of the Reciprocal trade agreements act: hearings before the Committee on finance, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3240, an act to extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff act of 1930, as amended, and for other purposes:
 * "en"
 * "en"

- A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse.


 * 1)  To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.
 * 1)  To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.

Translations

 * Finnish: kelkkailla, pulkkailla
 * Maori: hōrua
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1)  slide in a playground