sled

Plural: sleds

Noun

• a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
• A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
• A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
• A snowmobile.
• A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.

Verb

Verb Forms: sledded, sledding, sleds

• To travel or convey something on a sled over snow or ice.
• ride (on) a sled
• To ride a sled.
• To convey on a sled.

Examples

• "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
• He tried to SLED his way through the game, hoping for easy words and high scores.
• He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8.
• That sled had manual drum brakes on all four corners.
• The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
• We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section.

Synonyms

sledge, sleigh

Related Words

autosled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan

Anagrams of sled