Definition of bobsled in English:
bobsled
nounˈbɒbslɛdˈbɑbˌslɛd
A mechanically steered and braked sled, typically manned by crews of two or four, used for racing down a steep ice-covered run with banked curves; a bobsleigh.
- But the event I look forward to most is the men's four-man bobsled.
- Injuries have also been slowing down the Bulgarian bobsled team.
- An Army Reservist helped the United States end nearly half a century of Olympic frustration for the U.S. men's bobsled team by earning a silver medal during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- Bakken has been with the women's bobsled team since day one and has been either the top U.S. driver or one of the best ever since.
- U.S. Women's bobsledder Vonetta Flowers became the first Black woman to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics when she won the inaugural women's bobsled event on this day.
- With only two weeks of training on how to push a bobsled, Vonetta (along with her teammate Bonny Warner) broke the world start record in October 2000, at Park City, Utah
- In a transformation beyond my primitive understanding of quantum physics, the lump became a high performance bobsled.
- Jill Bakken of the Utah Army National Guard and her civilian partner won the gold medal in the first-ever women's bobsled competition.
- Opening the rotating glass door, Adrian was unfortunately welcomed by even harsher weather conditions; the wind speed had picked up drastically to forty miles an hour; almost the speed of an Olympic bobsled.
- Like many other bobsled teammates, Jones competed in other sports before crossing over to bobsled.
- An even bigger hoot is the 398-yard 10th, with its green far downhill from the landing area, fronted by a squiggly little bobsled run of a bent-grass fairway, curving around a lonesome pine.
- The Olympic committee said the bobsled association and ‘entrepreneurs or elites in our society’ were supposed to fund the sport and provide a bobsled, uniform and equipment for its Winter Games teams.
- Sports most frequently training in Lake Placid include biathlon, bobsled, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skiing and speed skating.
- While at Corning, he has worked on both the U.S. Olympic bobsled and the performance of Geoff Bodine's race cars.
- Women's bobsled is a medal event for the first time ever in the games, and Canadians Christina Smith and Paula McKenzie are among the medal contenders.
- Taiwan came in 29th out of 29 finishers in the four-man bobsled event in which Lee was the ‘fifth man.’
- Like many other bobsled teammates, Sharp comes from a track and field background.
- The physical definition lies in a small sled, an extreme athlete and an empty bobsled track.
- All of the racing sports, the skiing and bobsled and speed skating and luge, are exercises in déjà vu.
- Shea tried bobsled and luge before attempting skeleton.
- Denny thought Johnson represented the ideal crossover athlete for bobsled, so Johnson began to make the changeover from summer to winter sports
- Your bobsled seems to jerk around the track and it is very difficult to learn how to properly maneuver your sled down the course.
- This is a very vibrant, powerful and angry film offering a view of country that's not all bobsleds and dreadlocks.
- Although the idea of success on the world soccer stage for Canada was once as absurd as a Jamaican bobsled team, the girls are proving that they have what it takes, playing on Saturday against the intimidating United States soccer team.
- Here's an idea to liven up the Winter Olympics: send figure skaters down the bobsled run.
- Although existing one-dimensional studies of bobsled dynamics and sled performance are useful, to design a simulator we need to fully characterize the surface of the track and the motion of the sled in three dimensions.
Origin
Mid 19th century (originally denoting a sled made of two short sleds coupled together and used for hauling logs): from bob in the sense ‘short’ + sled.
Definition of bobsled in US English:
bobsled
nounˈbɑbˌslɛdˈbäbˌsled
US A mechanically steered and braked sled, typically manned by crews of two or four, used for racing down a steep ice-covered run with banked curves.
British term bobsleigh- Like many other bobsled teammates, Jones competed in other sports before crossing over to bobsled.
- This is a very vibrant, powerful and angry film offering a view of country that's not all bobsleds and dreadlocks.
- Taiwan came in 29th out of 29 finishers in the four-man bobsled event in which Lee was the ‘fifth man.’
- Injuries have also been slowing down the Bulgarian bobsled team.
- Denny thought Johnson represented the ideal crossover athlete for bobsled, so Johnson began to make the changeover from summer to winter sports
- While at Corning, he has worked on both the U.S. Olympic bobsled and the performance of Geoff Bodine's race cars.
- Although the idea of success on the world soccer stage for Canada was once as absurd as a Jamaican bobsled team, the girls are proving that they have what it takes, playing on Saturday against the intimidating United States soccer team.
- Although existing one-dimensional studies of bobsled dynamics and sled performance are useful, to design a simulator we need to fully characterize the surface of the track and the motion of the sled in three dimensions.
- Shea tried bobsled and luge before attempting skeleton.
- The Olympic committee said the bobsled association and ‘entrepreneurs or elites in our society’ were supposed to fund the sport and provide a bobsled, uniform and equipment for its Winter Games teams.
- Your bobsled seems to jerk around the track and it is very difficult to learn how to properly maneuver your sled down the course.
- Like many other bobsled teammates, Sharp comes from a track and field background.
- With only two weeks of training on how to push a bobsled, Vonetta (along with her teammate Bonny Warner) broke the world start record in October 2000, at Park City, Utah
- Here's an idea to liven up the Winter Olympics: send figure skaters down the bobsled run.
- U.S. Women's bobsledder Vonetta Flowers became the first Black woman to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics when she won the inaugural women's bobsled event on this day.
- The physical definition lies in a small sled, an extreme athlete and an empty bobsled track.
- Opening the rotating glass door, Adrian was unfortunately welcomed by even harsher weather conditions; the wind speed had picked up drastically to forty miles an hour; almost the speed of an Olympic bobsled.
- Bakken has been with the women's bobsled team since day one and has been either the top U.S. driver or one of the best ever since.
- An even bigger hoot is the 398-yard 10th, with its green far downhill from the landing area, fronted by a squiggly little bobsled run of a bent-grass fairway, curving around a lonesome pine.
- In a transformation beyond my primitive understanding of quantum physics, the lump became a high performance bobsled.
- An Army Reservist helped the United States end nearly half a century of Olympic frustration for the U.S. men's bobsled team by earning a silver medal during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- Women's bobsled is a medal event for the first time ever in the games, and Canadians Christina Smith and Paula McKenzie are among the medal contenders.
- Sports most frequently training in Lake Placid include biathlon, bobsled, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skiing and speed skating.
- But the event I look forward to most is the men's four-man bobsled.
- Jill Bakken of the Utah Army National Guard and her civilian partner won the gold medal in the first-ever women's bobsled competition.
- All of the racing sports, the skiing and bobsled and speed skating and luge, are exercises in déjà vu.
verbˈbɑbˌslɛdˈbäbˌsled
Ride on a bobsled.
- Ice axe up above my head, I bobsledded the existing glissade track all the way to the bottom.
- For example he's bobsledded against the Sweedish team and played ice hockey with Czechs but the only thing he's ever won is the World Elephant Polo Championships in Nepal.
- Sorry, not all of us bobsledded out of our mother's crotch with a Craftsmen tool set strapped to our foreheads.
- He has bobsledded at St. Moritz, dined at the pasha's palace at Marrakech, French Morocco.
- Tubs was recently featured in a Coca Cola commercial, where he bobsledded with the Jamaican bobsled team.
- ‘I even bobsledded in Calgary,’ she said, ‘but I was too nervous to go or even watch the Games.’
- He played hockey, bobsledded down Browning Street, skated on Lake Temiskaming, and enjoyed playing boyish pranks with his other younger friends.
- I didn't want to be on my death bed saying, ‘I wish I had gone to Park City (in Utah) to snow ski or run a marathon or bobsledded.’
- He skied and bobsledded on facilities used for the 1952 Winter Games and was steeped in Olympic heroes and feats.
Origin
Mid 19th century (originally denoting a sled made of two short sleds coupled together and used for hauling logs): from bob in the sense ‘short’ + sled.