bobsleigh

From bobs, the short runners on which the bobsleigh is based (as opposed to a usual sleigh on long runners continuing all the way along the vehicle); further etymology unclear. Attested since 1839 as bob-sled, long before the invention of the sport.

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bobsleigh (countable and uncountable, plural bobsleighs)

1. (obsolete) A sleigh for saw logs or heavy timber resting on two pairs of two short runners.
2. (uncountable, UK) A winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
3. (UK) The sled used in the sport of bobsleigh.

• bob
• bobsled (USA/Canada)

bobsleigh (third-person singular simple present bobsleighs, present participle bobsleighing, simple past and past participle bobsleighed)

1. To ride a bobsleigh.

• IPA^(key): /bɔb.slɛj/, /bɔb.slɛ/, /bɔb.slɛɡ/

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bobsleigh f (plural bobsleighs)

1. bobsleigh

• “bobsleigh”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bobslei

Unadapted borrowing from English bobsleigh or French bobsleigh.

bobsleigh n (plural bobsleigh-uri)

1. bobsleigh

Unadapted borrowing from English bobsleigh.

bobsleigh m (plural bobsleighs)

1. bobsleigh

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “bobsleigh”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024