DCHP-2

toboggan ((v.)) Various early spellings; see note at toboggan, n. [< n.] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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.