sled

See also sleď

English

A wooden sled.

Etymology

From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German sledde (cf. Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (cf. East Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Related to slide.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd

a dog sled

Noun

sled (plural sleds)

1. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. (A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.)

   The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.

2. (US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice. (contrast "sleigh", which is larger)

   "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.

Derived terms

• bobsled
• dogsled
• rocket sled
• sledding

Translations

a small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice

• Armenian: սահնակ (hy) (sahnak)
• Bulgarian: шейна (bg) (šejná) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪橇 (cmn) (xuěqiāo)

• Czech: sáňky (cs) f pl
• Danish: kælk (da)
• Finnish: pulkka (fi), kelkka (fi)
• French: luge (fr) f
• German: Schlitten (de) m
• Hungarian: szánkó (hu)
• Japanese: ソリ (ja) (sori), 橇 (ja) (ソリ, sori)
• Latvian: ragaviņas (lv)
• Macedonian: санка (mk) (sánka) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjelke (nb) m

  Nynorsk: kjelke (nn) m

• Polish: sanki (pl) pl
• Portuguese: trenó (pt) m
• Russian: санки (ru) (sánki) f pl, салазки (ru) (salázki) f pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сањке (sh) pl, санке (sh) pl, саонице (sh) pl, саоне (sh) pl, сање (sh) pl

  Roman: sanjke (sh) pl, sanke (sh) pl, saonice (sh) pl, saone (sh) pl, sanje (sh) pl

• Slovak: sánky (sk) f pl
• Spanish: trineo (es) m
• Swedish: kälke, pulka

a vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice

• Aleut: chataasix
• Belarusian: сані (be) (sáni) m pl
• Bulgarian: шейна (bg) (šejná) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雪橇 (cmn) (xuěqiāo)

• Czech: sáně (cs) f pl
• Danish: slæde (da)
• Dutch: slede (nl)
• Egyptian: tmt

• Esperanto: sledo (eo)
• Finnish: kelkka (fi), reki (fi)
• French: traîneau (fr) m
• Galician: zorra (gl) f
• German: Schlitten (de) m
• Greek: έλκηθρο (el) (élkithro) n
• Hungarian: szán (hu)
• Italian: slitta (it)

• Japanese: ソリ (ja) (sori), 橇 (ja) (ソリ, sori)
• Latvian: ragavas (lv)
• Macedonian: санка (mk) (sánka) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slede (nb) m

  Nynorsk: slede (nn) m

• Polish: sanie (pl) pl
• Portuguese: trenó (pt) m
• Russian: сани (ru) (sáni) m pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сањке (sh) pl, саонице (sh) pl, санке (sh) pl, саоне (sh) pl

  Roman: sanjke (sh) pl, saonice (sh) pl, sanke (sh) pl, saone (sh) pl

• Slovak: sane (sk) f pl
• Slovene: sani (sl) pl
• Spanish: trineo (es) m
• Swedish: släde (sv)
• Ukrainian: сани (uk) (sány) m pl
• Volapük: nifavab (vo)

See also

Wikipedia

• sledge
• sleigh
• toboggan

Verb

sled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)

1. To ride a sled.

Anagrams

• dels
• ELSD
• LEDs
• seld

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): slijȇd

Noun

slȇd m (Cyrillic spelling сле̑д)

1. sequence
2. track

Declension

    declension of sled

	singular	plural
nominative	slȇd	slȅdovi
genitive	sleda	sledova
dative	sledu	sledovima
accusative	sled	sledove
vocative	slede	sledovi
locative	sledu	sledovima
instrumental	sledom	sledovima