toboggan
/təˈbɑɡən/
noun
- A long, flat-bottomed sled without runners, used for sliding down snow-covered hills.
- He waxed the bottom of the toboggan to make it go faster.
- The children raced down the hill on their wooden toboggan.
- We packed a toboggan and hot cocoa for our winter outing.
verb
- To ride or travel on a toboggan.
- She learned to toboggan when she was just five years old.
- We spent the afternoon tobogganing down the steep slope.
- Every winter, they toboggan in the park near their house.
- To decline or fall rapidly, like a toboggan sliding downhill.
- The team's performance tobogganed in the second half of the season.
- His mood tobogganed from cheerful to gloomy in minutes.
- Stock prices tobogganed after the bad economic news.