toboggan Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front
  2. verb move along on a luge or toboggan
    luge.

WordNet

To*bog"gan noun
Etymology
Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled.
Definitions
  1. A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.
To*bog"gan intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tobogganed ; present participle & verbal noun Tobogganing
Definitions
  1. To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan. Barilett.

Webster 1913