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dogsled

or dog sled

[ dawg-sled, dog- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a sled pulled by dogs, especially one used by Arctic peoples, as in Alaska and Canada.

, dog·sled·ded, dog·sled·ding.

dogsled

/ ˈdɒɡˌslɛd /

Origin of dogsled¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10; dog + sled

I said “Yeah, mon.” And then they started the Jamaica Dogsled team, and they wanted to send us abroad to do races.

If you read nothing else today, let it be Brian Phillips' essay on following the Iditarod, Alaska's great dogsled race.

All Hager had to do was slow the dogsled to a walk, and his partner died.

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