v. slide down a snow-covered hill, as on a sleigh or toboggan.
- 1828  (1830)  Sometimes on a clear frosty night . . . I have watched these little sleds coasting (as it is termed) down the hills. . . .
- 1879  On Christmas day a little girl was coasting with some companions in a field off Pleasant Street, when she coasted over a stone wall on to the street, and was . . . badly hurt.
- 1903  The young people were having a gay time coasting down hill over the "crust" on Dudley Moore's traineau. . . .
- 1934  coast, U.S. and Canada.