sledging

Noun

sledging (countable and uncountable, plural sledgings)

1. The act of using a sledge to travel over snow.
   • In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright.2012, Chris Turney, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, page 19
2. The act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.
   • It is necessary, therefore, to force the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging, or by some other equivalent means;1905, "The "Lap-Joint Crack" in Steam Boilers", The Locomotive, new series 25: 162
3. The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting the batter.
   • Mind you, Wally wasn't bad at the sledging caper himself.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 181