tobogganer

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

to•bog•gan /təˈbɑgən/   n. [countable]

1. a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled.

v. [no object]

2. to coast on a toboggan.

to•bog•gan•er, to•bog•gan•ist, n. [countable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

to•bog•gan  (tə bog′ən), n. 

1. 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 esp. in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.

v.i. 

2. to use, or coast on, a toboggan.
3. to fall rapidly, as prices or one's fortune.

• Maliseet-Passamaquoddy t^hapákən, Micmac topaĝan (equivalent. to Proto-Algonquian *weta·pye·- to drag a cord + *-kan- instrument for)
• 1820–30

to•bog′gan•er, to•bog′gan•ist, n.