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toboggan (s) (noun), toboggans (pl)
1. A long, narrow, flat framework made of thin boards without runners that are turned upwards in the front and used to slide over snow or ice: "Bruce's children loved to slide on their toboggans in the winter when the hillside next to their house was covered with snow."
2. Etymology: from Canadian French tobogane; from Algonquian tobakun, "a sled".
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toboggan (verb), toboggans; tobogganed; tobogganing
1. To coast or to slide downhill on snow: "Mike's children were always excited when it snowed because they enjoyed tobogganing in the field in their neighborhood."
2. To ride on a vehicle made of wood, being flat, long and narrow, without runners and curved up in the front: "The young students really enjoyed their recess times when they tobogganed down the snowy slope next to their school."
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