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- noun UK A
winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-poweredsled . - noun UK The
sled used in the sport of bobsleigh - verb To
ride a bobsleigh.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- noun formerly two short sleds coupled together
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Examples
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To be fair, a good number of these persons were once good at riding horses, shooting guns, sailing yachts, and/or participating in bobsleigh competitions, among other hearty out-of-door recreations of the very rich.
Kissing Their Rings 2009
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To be fair, a good number of these persons were once good at riding horses, shooting guns, sailing yachts, and/or participating in bobsleigh competitions, among other hearty out-of-door recreations of the very rich.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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But the bobsleigh has been an Olympic winter sport since 1924 and has all the thrills of a giant gravity-fed roller coaster.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Darryl Leniuk 2011
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Hollywood made a film about them and a measure of their legacy is that Jamaica has a Winter Olympic bobsleigh team to this day.
GB women's volleyball team determined to get to 2012 Olympics 2011
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Their story is one of unlikelihood and guts, with echoes of the famous Jamaican bobsleigh team at the 1988 Calgary Games.
GB women's volleyball team determined to get to 2012 Olympics 2011
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A NASCAR guy decided to have a go at redesigning the bobsleigh; Stephen Colbert got his viewers to sponsor the speed skaters.
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No wonder they named a bend at the Olympic bobsleigh track in St Moritz after him.
Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson 2011
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The Power2Podium initiative, jointly coordinated by UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport, is aimed at applicants whose natural attributes can be honed to an international standard in disciplines such as athletics, rugby sevens, bobsleigh and skeleton, canoeing, sprint cycling and weightlifting.
Search starts for Britain's Olympic talent of the future 2011
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Sachs was a German millionaire playboy and 1958 European bobsleigh champion.
Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson 2011
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Kenya has long dominated distance running at the Summer Olympics, but some Kenyans believe they could one day rival Jamaica's famous bobsleigh team by bringing their own brand of "cool runnings" to a major tournament.
hernesheir commented on the word bobsleigh
Whilst fighting the Boers, Trenchard (Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard) was critically wounded and as a result of his injury, he lost a lung, was partially paralysed and returned to Great Britain. On medical advice Trenchard travelled to Switzerland to recuperate and boredom saw him taking up bobsleighing. After a heavy crash, Trenchard found that his paralysis was gone and that he could walk unaided. Following further recuperation, Trenchard returned to active service in South Africa.
(Wikipedia)
September 26, 2009