different between bobsled vs skeleton

English

Noun

bobsled (plural bobsleds)

1. (US and Canada) A sled used to go down a bob track.
2. (US and Canada) The sport of travelling down a bob track as fast as possible.
3. A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; the compound sled so formed.
   • W. D. Howells

     The long wagon body set on bobsleds.

Synonyms

• (sled): bobsleigh
• (sport): bobsleigh, bobsledding

Derived terms

• bobsledder

Translations

Verb

bobsled (third-person singular simple present bobsleds, present participle bobsledding, simple past and past participle bobsledded)

1. To ride a bobsled.

Translations

See also

• bobsled on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?l?t?n/

Etymology 1

From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from ?????? (skéll?, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek ??????? (skl?rós, “hard”).

Alternative forms

• sceleton (obsolete)

Noun

skeleton (plural skeletons or skeleta)

1. (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
2. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
3. (figuratively) A very thin person.

4. (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

5. (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
6. (computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

7. (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
8. (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
9. (attributive) Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.

Synonyms

• (anatomy): ottomy (obsolete), skellington (nonstandard)
• (very thin person): see also Thesaurus:thin person
• (central core giving shape to something): backbone

Antonyms

• (computing): stub

Derived terms

• skeletal
• skeletally
• skelly

Related terms

Translations

Verb

skeleton (third-person singular simple present skeletons, present participle skeletoning, simple past and past participle skeletoned)

1. (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
2. (archaic) to minimize

See also

• bone

Etymology 2

The etymology of the term is disputed between two versions.

• From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.
• From Norwegian kjaelke (a type of ice sled) through a bad anglicization as "skele".

Noun

skeleton (uncountable)

1. (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

   Synonym: skeleton tobogganing

   Coordinate terms: luge, bobsled

Translations

References

Further reading

• skeleton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• skeleton (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• skeleton (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Esperanto

Noun

skeleton

1. accusative singular of skeleto

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ske.le.t??/

Noun

skeleton m (uncountable)

1. skeleton (winter sport)

Derived terms

• skeletoneur

Portuguese

Noun

skeleton m (uncountable)

1. skeleton (type of tobogganing)

Related terms

• esqueleto