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dogsleds

  • plural
    of dogsled.
    dogsled
    noun
    a sled pulled by dogs, especially one used by Arctic peoples, as in Alaska and Canada.

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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