different between tobogganing vs skeleton

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

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