sled

IPA: sɫˈɛd

noun

  • A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)
  • (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)
  • (slang) A snowmobile.
  • (US, law enforcement) Abbreviation of South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
  • (computing) Acronym of Single Large Expensive Disk.

verb

  • (intransitive) To ride a sled.
  • (transitive) To convey on a sled.
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Examples of "sled" in Sentences

  • Dogs could pull the sleds over the ice.
  • The main color of the sled is not the only difference.
  • The most common types are either the sled or the roller.
  • The dog is hitched to the sled and the sled to the skier.
  • The old sled dog bobs over the cracks of the ice with ease.
  • When the car stops, the sled will continue into the vehicle.
  • The pallbearers drop the coffin, which sleds down the stairs.
  • Charley, -- more than one sled is necessary when a woman like
  • The Lead sled is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.
  • Back to the original topic, I agree that the lead sled is an atrocity.
  • The sled and standpipe is displaced by winding the conduit on the reel.
  • Kirby is the cocky member of the trio and the lead dog on the sled team.
  • The sled is completely flexible over blow downs, rocks and ground debris.
  • The sled is steered mainly with the feet by applying pressure on the runners.
  • The new sled is meant to replace the one he had in Colorado, back with his family.
  • Crash or no crash, the sled is still travelling about 80 miles an hour at the bottom of the track.
  • Joy gives him his Yukon nickname after he devises a tarpaulin sled to carry a half a ton of goods by sliding the cargo down a glacier.
  • The Brazilian bobsled team, the only sled from the tropics in the Olympic competition, crashed about two-thirds of the way down the track in its first run, sliding across the finish line with the sled on its side.

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