sled

Meaning

Noun

1. A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
2. (Canada, US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
3. (Canada, US, slang) A snowmobile.
4. (Canada, US, figuratively, slang) A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To ride a sled.
2. (transitive) To convey on a sled.

Synonyms

sledge

sleigh

toboggan

sledge

bobsleigh

luge

drag

dogs

pung

tray

motor sleigh

horse-sleigh

bobsled

Translations

trineo

Schlitten

🛷

traîneau

🛷

slee

🛷

slitta

luge

slede

trenó

🛷

trineu

🛷

έλκηθρο

schlittern

toboggan

traineau

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slɛd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sledde

Cognate with Dutch: slee

Cognate with Low German: Sleden

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: sliede

Cognate with German: Schlitten

Cognate with Norwegian: slede

In summary

From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.