DCHP-1 Online
toboggan ((v.)) Various early spellings; see note at toboggan, n. [< n.] 
1 v. ride on a toboggan; engage in tobogganing.
See also: tobogganing
- 1846 (1927) . . . they tarboggined, slid and trudged about merrily in the deep, dry snow.
- 1913 "She went tobogganing out behind the fort at ten o'clock, with the missionary's wife."
2 v. transport on a toboggan (def. 1).
- 1907 After the hunting of big game it rests with the women and children to cut up the meat and toboggan it to camp.
3 v. slide like a toboggan (def. 2).
See also: toboggan ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1928 Deeply loaded, both [canoes] had literally toboganed on the rocks all the way down the steep shallow rapid.
- 1938 (1950) Once we found otter tracks leading along a bank to a deep slide where they tobogganed down to a small rushing creek.
- 1964 . . . their youngsters, in the absence of snow, do belly floppers on the terrazzo floors and toboggan around on shopping carts.
- 1846 (1927) . . . they tarboggined, slid and trudged about merrily in the deep, dry snow.