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• n  a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front
• v  move along on a luge or toboggan

• Though never a fancy skater or ski jumper, His Holiness was once an intrepid bobsledder and a skilled toboggan steersman.
• Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars.
• Showing the familial zest for outdoor adventure, Bobby Kennedy and his children toboggan down a hill.

• luge

News & Articles

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• Sliding dry ice may create Mars 'toboggan tracks'
  By Larry O'HanlonDiscovery NewsThere is no mistaking them: the tracks of tobogganers on the frigid slopes of Mars. The Martian toboggans in this case are slabs of dry ice that are now believed to slide down sand dunes and create long, narrow channels that had previously been ascribed to some sort of weird water seeps.The new explanation for the strangely long, high-sided channels in dune faces ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• On the Market: A Huge Property Tax Break for Goldman Sachs; Coney Island Pleads For Its Own Ferry; Councilmember ...
  The Super Bowl will bring a toboggan to Times Square in 2014?! [Gothamist] Marketing professionals rejoice at finding $2,500 one-bedroom in Boerum Hill. [NYT] Coney Island businesses want city to subsidize ferry from Manhattan. [Bk Paper] Soho Louis Vuitton adds in-store atelier. [Racked] Rents rise in Manhattan; the median rent in Soho/Tribeca is now $5,300. [Crain's] Bike share is popular, but ...
  June 12, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in Philadelphia Inquirer
  While acknowledging that much more work is needed to restore the country's economic health, Biden said "the toboggan ride has ended."
• James Jeffords in Boston Globe (registration)
  He and his friends used to have a toboggan run that they'd light from Main Street, down across Kingsley Avenue and the across our property and down Roberts Avenue. And it was a glorious finish -- that we never knew about,Jeffords said...
• Mike Nickel in Canoe.ca
  Enough of this granny-state approach to every scrape and bump that a kid is going to have,Nickel said. "I have two kids of my own. If I was worried about them going down on a toboggan, I'd put a helmet on them. If they ride a bike, I'll...