Bobsleigh
bobsled.
Contemporary Examples
Where to Win Your Own Winter Olympics Lonely Planet January 3, 2014
Historical Examples
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 21, 1914 Various
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer
noun
a racing sledge for two or more people, with a steering mechanism enabling the driver to direct it down a steeply banked ice-covered run
(esp formerly)
a sleigh made of two short sledges joined one behind the other
one of these two short sledges
verb
(intransitive) to ride on a bobsleigh
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