sled
UK/ˈslɛd/
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Australia/ˈsled/
sled noun: a small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
Noun (1)
sled (plural sleds)
- A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
- The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
- A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
- "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
- A snowmobile.
- We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section.
- A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.
- Near-synonyms: land yacht, boat
- He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8.
- Synonyms:
- land yacht, boat
- A piece of exercise equipment, used in American football training etc., that provides resistance as it is moved over a flat surface.
Verb
sled (third-person singular simple present sleds, present participle sledding, simple past and past participle sledded)
Proper noun capitalized: SLED
SLED
- Abbreviation of South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
- “Chief Justice John W. Kittredge is aware of an incident involving Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein. At this time, SLED is on the scene and will begin investigating as soon as the fire has been contained,” the court said Saturday in the statement.2025 October 6, Cindy Von Quednow, “South Carolina authorities are investigating a fire that engulfed the home of state circuit court judge”, in CNN
Noun (2) capitalized: SLED
SLED (plural SLEDs)
Examples of sled in a sentence
- My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows.
- “They would say, ‘I got a real sled head today,’” Morris said.
- A dog sled snowhook works almost as well, though they are tougher to work in overflows.
Synonyms of sled
Forms of sled
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sleds |
| plural | SLEDs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sleds |
| present participle | sledding |
| past participle | sledded |
| past | sledded |
Origin of sled
From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Words formed from sled
Phrases with sled
Words that rhyme with sled
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- dread
- wed
- ahead
- bread
- embed
- in one's stead
- inbred
- ped
- zed
- bestead
- cred
- ed
- fed
- med
- undead
- abed
- bedspread
- DMZ
- Fred
- led
- Prussian red
- retread
- spoon-fed
- unwed
- z
- antired
- aspread
- bark bed
- behead
- bested
- bled
- block head
- bred
- cabin bed
- common thread
- Cow Head
- Crow Head
- faned
- fled
- freedom bread
- fugged
- instead
- ked
- knead
- misled
- ned
- pled
- read
Questions about sled
- What does sled mean?
- Sled means a small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
- What part of speech is sled?
- Sled can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sled?
- Sled is pronounced /ˈslɛd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sled?
- The plural of sled is sleds.
Words near sled in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sled (page history and authors); SLED (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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