Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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In the street people were tobogganing in the fresh snow, and their clamour floated in at the window.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Games had to be undertaken as long as the daylight lasted—chief among which were tobogganing down the snow-slope, and football on the ice.
From The Big Otter by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Billy, by a series of skilful manoeuvers, had succeeded in removing the chair that held one of the planks, and a cascade of small, indignant girls were tobogganing sidewise down the incline.
From Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
