sled

From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.

• IPA^(key): /slɛd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛd

sled (plural sleds)

2. A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.

   Hyponym: bobsled

   The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.

4. (chiefly Canada, US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.

   Hyponyms: dog sled, horse sled

   Coordinate term: sleigh (generally larger)

   "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.

6. (slang, chiefly Canada, US) A snowmobile.

   We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section.

8. (slang, chiefly Canada, US, figuratively) A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.

   He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8.

   That sled had manual drum brakes on all four corners.

sled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)

1. (intransitive) To ride a sled.
2. (transitive) To convey on a sled.

• dels, seld, LEDs, ELSD, Dels, EDLs, elds

Inherited from Old Czech sled, Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈslɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: sled
• Homophone: slet

sled m inan

1. sequence, succession
   • 2012, Radomír Čížek, Velké oživení, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of The Great Reflation by J. Anthony Boeckh, →ISBN, page 15:

     Investoři musejí pochopit, že zde existuje určitý propojený sled událostí, které vedou k potenciální katastrofě.

     It is critical for investors to understand that there is a linked sequence of events that is leading to a potential disaster.

• “sled”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sled”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sled”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• sedl

• slijȇd (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *slědъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sláidus, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ-.

slȇd m inan (Cyrillic spelling сле̑д)

1. sequence
2. track

• “sled”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025