was tobogganing

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of toboggan.
  toboggan

  noun

  a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled made of a thin board curved upward and backward at the front, often with low handrails on the sides, used especially in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.

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was tobogganing

By the mid-'50s this beautiful actress was tobogganing into mental illness and Olivier was in desperate need of a new challenge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our favourite amusement during that winter was tobogganing.

From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by John Albert Macy

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