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luging

luging is the present participle and gerund of luge.

Meaning of luge

Verb

luge (third-person singular simple present luges, present participle luging or lugeing, simple past and past participle luged)

  1. (also, attributive, intransitive) To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.
  2. (also, attributive, figuratively, intransitive) To slide or slip down a slope.
    • [Norman] Ollestad was only 11 when a small plane carrying him, his father and his father's girlfriend to a ski race slammed into the San Gabriel Mountains west of Los Angeles during a blizzard. […] After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down...2009 July 5, Jennifer Schuessler, “Inside the List”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021

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Questions about luging

What is luging the present participle and gerund of?
Luging is the present participle and gerund of luge.

Words near luging in the dictionary

  1. Lugh
  2. Lughnasadh
  3. lughole
  4. lugholes
  5. Lughrata
  6. luging
  7. lugmark
  8. lugmarks
  9. Lugnaquilla
  10. lugnut
  11. lugnuts

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