The German athletes won four gold medals at the luge world championship in Canada.
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Luge
//luː(d)ʒ//
Synonyms for "luge" (3 found)
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Translations
78 translations across 44 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- زحافات ثلجية noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Armenian
1 entries- սահնակային սպորտ noun (sport of racing on luges)
Basque
2 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- luge noun (sport of racing on luges)
Belarusian
1 entries- санны спорт noun (sport of racing on luges)
Bulgarian
1 entries- спортна шейна noun (sport of racing on luges)
Catalan
1 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 無舵雪橇 /无舵雪橇 noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- 無舵雪橇 /无舵雪橇 noun (sport of racing on luges)
Czech
4 entries- saně noun (sport of racing on luges)
- sáně noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- sáňkování noun (sport of racing on luges)
- sáňky noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Danish
1 entries- kælkning noun (sport of racing on luges)
Dutch
1 entries- rodelen noun (sport of racing on luges)
Esperanto
1 entries- sledado noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Estonian
1 entries- kelgutamine noun (sport of racing on luges)
Finnish
3 entries- ohjaskelkka noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- ohjaskelkkailu noun (sport of racing on luges)
- kelkkailla verb (to ride a luge; to participate in the sport of luge)
French
3 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- luge noun (sport of racing on luges)
- luge de course noun (sport of racing on luges)
Galician
2 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- zorra noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
German
4 entries- Rennrodeln noun (sport of racing on luges)
- Rennschlitten noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- Rodeln noun (sport of racing on luges)
- Schlitten noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Greek
2 entries- λουτζ noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- λουτζ noun (sport of racing on luges)
Hebrew
2 entries- לוז׳ noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- לוז׳ noun (sport of racing on luges)
Hungarian
4 entries- szánkó noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- szánkó noun (sport of racing on luges)
- szánkósport noun (sport of racing on luges)
- szánkózás noun (sport of racing on luges)
Italian
1 entries- slittino noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Japanese
2 entries- リュージュ noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- リュージュ noun (sport of racing on luges)
Korean
2 entries- 루지 noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- 루지 noun (sport of racing on luges)
Latvian
1 entries- kamaniņu braukšana noun (sport of racing on luges)
Lithuanian
2 entries- nusileidimas rogutėmis noun (sport of racing on luges)
- rogučių sportas noun (sport of racing on luges)
Macedonian
1 entries- санкање noun (sport of racing on luges)
Norwegian
1 entries- slede noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- aking noun (sport of racing on luges)
Occitan
1 entries- lièja noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Persian
2 entries- لوژ noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- لوژسواری noun (sport of racing on luges)
Polish
4 entries- rynna noun (piece of bone, etc., with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth)
- saneczkarstwo noun (sport of racing on luges)
- saneczki noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- saneczkować verb (to ride a luge; to participate in the sport of luge)
Portuguese
2 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- luge noun (sport of racing on luges)
Romanian
1 entries- sanie noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Russian
2 entries- са́нный спорт noun (sport of racing on luges)
- сани noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sankanje noun (sport of racing on luges)
- санкање noun (sport of racing on luges)
Spanish
1 entries- luge noun (sport of racing on luges)
Swedish
1 entries- rodel noun (sport of racing on luges)
Tagalog
2 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- luge noun (sport of racing on luges)
Tamil
2 entries- லூஜ் noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
- லூஜ் noun (sport of racing on luges)
Tatar
1 entries- чана спорты noun (sport of racing on luges)
Turkish
1 entries- kızak noun (sport of racing on luges)
Ukrainian
1 entries- са́нний спорт noun (sport of racing on luges)
Uzbek
1 entries- chana sporti noun (sport of racing on luges)
Vietnamese
2 entries- luge noun (sport of racing on luges)
- trượt băng nằm ngửa noun (sport of racing on luges)
Welsh
1 entries- luge noun (racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin could not have come from more different backgrounds. Grimmette is from Michigan, where there is heavy ice and snowfall and he helped build a luge track when he was 14. Martin is from Palo Alto California, where the average temperature is between 10 and 20 degrees Celsius and there is no snowfall.
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The luge was a block of ice, sometimes up to three-and-one-half feet long, which had narrow grooves etched into it. Alcohol was poured onto one end of the luge and as the alcohol traveled down the narrow grooves in the block of ice, it was cooled and then ran directly into the mouth of the waiting drinker on the other end.
Source: wiktionary
Kegs of beer were set up around every corner. There was also a liquor luge—a giant block of ice, slanted at a 45-degree angle and carved with a convenient path for shots to be poured down and into the mouths of anyone who was thirsty.
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