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Sledding in Yyteri, Finland. Children sledding in a park, 18 secs video. Sledding, sledging or sleighing is a winter sport typically carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled (North American), a sledge (British), or a sleigh.
Man-hauled sledges were the traditional means of transport on British exploring expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic regions in the 19th and early 20th centuries, championed for example by Captain Scott. Dog sleds were used by most others, such as Roald Amundsen. In the Philippines, a traditional carabao-drawn sled is known as the kangga.
Fishing the Dollart mud flats in 1951 In a German museum A German mud sledge. A mud sledge is a sled used to cross mud flats such as estuaries and bays.. Mud flats are difficult to cross because even shallow draft boats will get stuck while pedestrians and wheeled vehicles bog down easily too.
The traditional American toboggan is made of bound, parallel wood slats, all bent up and backwards at the front to form a recumbent 'J' shape. A thin rope is run across the edge of end of the curved front to provide rudimentary steering. These usually lack the iron runners of the older woodcutter's sledges.
Threshing sledges from the Bronze Age and today (CEPAM / Centre de Recherches Archéologiques - CNRS) (in Spanish) Día del Mundo Rural 2000 (Rural World Day 2000). Pictures from Miranda de Arga (Navarre, Spain). (in Spanish) Laureano Molina Gómez, El trillo del abuelo ("Grandfather's Threshing board"), etnografo.com.
A qamutit carrying a kayak, dogs asleep in background. A qamutiik (Inuktitut: แแงแแ; [1] alternate spellings qamutik (single sledge runner), komatik, Greenlandic: qamutit [2]) is a traditional Inuit sled designed to travel on snow and ice.