kicksled

词形变化

kicksleds 复数 kicksleds kicksledded kicksledding kicksleds 三单 kicksledding 现在分词 kicksledded 过去式 kicksledded 过去分词

别名

kick-sled

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of small sled consisting of a handlebar mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners. The driver stands on the runners and kicks the sled forward with one foot. In front of the handlebar there's often a seat for a passenger.

v.
  1. 1.

    To travel by kicksled

词源

Calque of Finnish potkukelkka (“kick sled”), equivalent to kick + sled. This term possibly because arose the device appears to be first introduced to larger American audience in the form kick-sled in the Feb. 26th 1940 issue of the Life magazine in a story of the Finnish Winter War.

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