Sled \Sled\ (sl[e^]d), n. [Akin to D. slede, G. schlitten, OHG. slito, Icel. sle[eth]i, Sw. sl["a]de, Dan. sl[ae]de, and E. slide, v. See {Slide}, and cf. {Sledge} a vehicle, {Sleigh}.] 1. A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice; -- in England called {sledge}.
2. A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
Sled \Sled\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sledded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sledding}.] To convey or transport on a sled; as, to sled wood or timber.
Suddenly, the sled crashes through, water splashing over the side.
At one point early in the expedition, two of the team's three sleds were damaged in a crashing descent on ice, and at another point, a French doctor had to descend into an ice crevasse to rescue a stranded sled dog.
Most of the work is carried out by volunteers, although inmates from the Anvil Mountain Correctional Center have helped install the sled chute at the finish, City manager Polly Prchal said.
Vaughan, a dog musher raised in Alaska, by dog sled to recover a secret bombsight left with one of the B-17s.
The OSU sled's No. 1 advantage, he says, is an aerodynamic shape that reduces drag 20% to 25%.
Even the Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race, which runs between Bethel and Aniak, had to be postponed because of the cold.
The team used small boats to ferry sled dogs and supplies to the ship, she said.
An explorer on a dog sled trek across Antarctica disappeared in a blizzard for 11 hours, as foul weather threatened the team's plan to finish the first non-mechanized crossing of the continent by Saturday.
Only Richard Gephardt had a campaign event made to order for such a day _ he was to watch a dog sled race at Opechee Park in Laconia.
With only three dogs left, the Tuveris abandoned their sled and simply climbed to the 20,320-foot summit with the dogs.
On Feb. 12, Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner and West German adventurer Arved Fuchs completed what they said was a 1,700-mile crossing on foot, without the use of sled dogs.
Buser arrived about an hour later, crouching on the back of his sled, brushing his teeth.
Sobered by two snow-scarce seasons, European winter resorts are luring skiers back to the slopes with massive investments in snow-making machines and substitute activities ranging from winter golf and horseback riding to sled dog runs and cooking classes.
Not anymore." The test was conducted at the lab's rocket sled facility just south of Albuquerque in April 1988.
The Iditarod, named for an abandoned gold-mining town along the trail, was started in 1973 to commemorate the 1925 emergency delivery of life-saving diphtheria serum from Anchorage to Nome by sled dog teams.
Named for an abandoned gold-mining town along the trail, the Iditarod was started in 1973 to commemorate the 1925 emergency delivery of life-saving diphtheria serum from Anchorage to Nome by sled dog teams.
All three dogs were in harnesses attached to the sled, preventing them from falling to their deaths, DeMoll said.
Frontrunners in the 1,168-mile Anchorage-to-Nome sled dog race edged closer to the halfway point today after a musher who placed ninth last year took the lead.
I couldn't believe it. Well, I waited until he fell asleep and then I took a look at his sled."
But an airline design specialist says Mr. Tinder's 234-pound pods, even if perfected, would turn a jetliner into "a lead sled."
Six mushers who spent seven months making the first dog sled trek to the South Pole in 78 years loaded their supplies aboard a Soviet ship Monday at the end of their adventure.
"Ninety-five percent of them don't ski," Sagron said. "They come to play in the snow, sled on the little plastic sleds and go up the cable car to see the view." Only on rare occasions are Western reporters allowed to enter Iran.
The sled tests involve seats, barriers and dummies attached to a sled that approximates conditions in a crash.
The sled tests involve seats, barriers and dummies attached to a sled that approximates conditions in a crash.
And it comes despite the fact they still have no sled, little money and are hundreds of miles from the nearest snow.