sled down

sled down (something)

To travel on a sled from the top of something down to the bottom of it. We always go sledding down the hill behind our school whenever we get a snow day. With his leg broken, he managed to sled down the mountain by rigging his skis and jacket into a makeshift toboggan.
See also: down, sled
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sled down something

to ride down something on a sled. I love to sled down the hill in the winter. This hill is too steep to sled down safely.
See also: down, sled
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bounce up and down
  • be down to (do something)
  • be down to something
  • come a gutser
  • close down
  • close down and shut down
  • be down to (one)
  • be down to somebody/something
  • bear down
  • bogged down
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Putter remembered what fun he had as a boy racing his sled down the slope of snow.
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Other forces, like drag, slow the sled down. Drag occurs when air pushes against an object.
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This will allow air to flow around the sled more easily instead of creating drag, or air resistance, that slows a sled down.
Instead we have the option of treading on a plastic mat to slow the sled down, or a metal brake to bring them to a halt.
45 Sled down some of the highest dunes in Europe at Merthyr Mawr.
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In subsequent scenes as the grandchildren arrive at their grandparents' country home the boy pictures his parents using pillows to sled down the stairs (with feathers flying!) eating junk food and playing with the children's toys including his very own Beasty Bugs action figures.
One winter tradition she remembers fondly involves a big hill near the Highway Department building in Tupelo, where children would sled down on garbage can lids and boxes when it snowed.
Henry, the record-setting former Oregon hammer thrower, will attempt to make the move from spinning in the circle under warm summer skies to pushing a sled down an icy run in the dead of winter when she tries out for the U.S.
As it turned out, I bogged my sled down and it got stuck better than three quarters of the way up.