different between sledging vs tobogganing

English

Pronunciation

Verb

sledging

1. present participle of sledge

Noun

sledging (countable and uncountable, plural sledgings)

1. The act of using a sledge to travel over snow.
   • 2012, Chris Turney, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, page 19

     In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright.

2. The act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.
   • 1905, "The "Lap-Joint Crack" in Steam Boilers", The Locomotive, new series 25: 162

     It is necessary, therefore, to force the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging, or by some other equivalent means;

3. (cricket) The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting him

Translations

See also

• trash-talk

Anagrams

• geldings, ledgings, sniggled

English

Verb

tobogganing

1. present participle of toboggan
   • 1902: Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

     A cascade of small, indignant girls were tobogganing sidewise down the incline.

   • 1916: William John Thomas, (John) Doran, Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, Notes and Queries

     I froze my toes some years ago, while tobogganing, and was unaware of it until I took off my shoe and walked across the room, when the unusual noise on the boards attracted my attention.

   • 2006: Keith Dixon, Altered Life

     I can't win, can I? You think I'm posh and my folks think I'm tobogganing down-market faster than the royal family.

Noun

tobogganing (usually uncountable, plural tobogganings)

1. The use of toboggans, historically for transport, but now usually for pleasure or for organised sport.
   • 1876: Elisée Reclus, Ernest George Ravenstein, A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: The Universal Geography

     As elsewhere in Canada, winter is the festive season, given up to sledging, skating, "tobogganning," and other outdoor exhilarating amusements.

   • 2004: Natalie M Rosinsky, The Algonquin

     Today's Olympic sport called luge is a form of tobogganing.

   • 2006: Brenda Koller, The Canadian Rockies Adventure Guide

     There are many winter activities if skiing or snowboarding aren't on your list — guided scenic motorcoach tours, horse-drawn sleigh rides, Johnston Canyon icewalks, ice-fishing, snowshoeing, skating, tobogganing, and more.

Hyponyms

• luge
• skeleton (sport)
• bobsleigh / bobsledding
• tubing