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Definition: Tobogganing |
TobogganingNoun1. Riding on a long light sled with low handrails. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tobogganing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tobogganing in Canada (1902) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | What caused these tracks? Tobogganing penguins. Note the flipper marks in snow. Penguin tracks produced by sliding across the ice on their bellies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Emperor penguins tobogganing over the snow. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Tobogganing / Hy Sandham ; aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tobogganing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Tobogganing" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tobogganing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tobogganing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | mäenlasku (ski jump). (various references) | |
German | schlittenfahren (sledging, Sleighing), rodelnd. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obogganingtay.(various references) | |
Swedish | kälkåning. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tobogganing": tobogganings. (additional references) | |
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"Tobogganing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tobagganing, toboganning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-g-g-i-n-n-o-o-t" | |
-3 letters: tabooing, tangoing, toboggan. | |
-4 letters: atoning, bagging, banging, boating, bogging, bonging, booting, ganging, gigaton, gonging, nagging, nogging, ongoing, tagging, tanging, togging, tonging. | |
-5 letters: anoint, anting, bagnio, baning, bating, boning, bonita, bonito, booing, gabion, gaboon, gaging, gating, gitano, gobang, gonion, nation, noggin, noting, notion, obtain, toning. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-g-g-i-n-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: tobogganings. | |
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