Dogsled

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sled, pulled by dogs over ice and snow.

    "His body was jammed so tightly in the carryall of the dog sled that I had difficulty slipping my arm under him."

  2. 2
    a sled pulled by dogs wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To ride on a dogsled. intransitive
  2. 2
    travel with a dogsled wordnet
  3. 3
    To race dogsleds. intransitive

Synonyms

All synonyms
dog sleddog sledgedog sleighmushmushsled

Example

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"Steve Fossett did not limit himself to sailing and flying. He also competed in the one thousand eight hundred kilometer race through Alaska called the Iditarod Dogsled Race. And, he entered the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. Competitors must complete one hundred eighty kilometers of bicycling, forty-two kilometers of running and almost four kilometers of swimming."

Etymology

From dog + sled.

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