dogsled
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
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Origin of dogsled
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This was followed by a four-hour trip by fishing boat to the entrance of the fjord, before a final dogsled to the base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
She plans to put wheels on her sled to continue running dogsled tours during the summer period.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
They were not invited, and the people of Greenland made that clear, forcing the second couple to cancel their initial plans to visit cultural sites and a dogsled race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025
Announcing Mrs Vance's visit, the White House said the second lady would visit historical sites and attend the Avannaata Qimussersu, Greenland's national dogsled race.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
If we was goin, we’d wait till the river froze and take a dogsled.
From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by Sayler, H. L. (Harry Lincoln)
Donald Trump has ridiculed Denmark's defence of Greenland as amounting to "two dogsleds", but the Sirius Dogsled Patrol is no joke: the elite navy unit works in extreme conditions where only the toughest survive.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
"They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently."
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
Residents drive snow machines and all-terrain vehicles that have replaced dogsleds for hunting.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
She describes a traditional Ice Age way of life, in which elite marine-mammal hunters wearing skins and riding dogsleds provided food, tools and clothing for their community using methods passed on for 5,000 years.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2021
In the ship’s hold were stores for at least two years, including a recent innovation: concentrated Bovril sledging rations for the trans-Antarctic run on dogsleds.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
From dogsledding races in Alaska to lobster festivals in Maine, rituals around the animals in our lives—be they predators, prey, beasts of burden or sources of entertainment—help us define what it means to be human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Squish Factor – The outhouse at the dogsledding camp was surprisingly roomy and very clean!
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025
The national park boasts more than 2 million acres of federally designated wilderness, and due to the deep snows of the Alaskan winter, dogsledding is one of the only ways to get around.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025
As Karina Bernlow’s dogsledding pups happily played in the swirling snow on a mid-January afternoon, she also feared the prospect of warmer seasons.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
All aspects of sport and recreation on Svalbard feel the impact of a warming climate, from dogsledding to snowmobiling to skiing, fishing, hunting and glacier climbing.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
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