English Explanatory Dictionary

kicksled

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
verb
  1. To travel by kicksled

Word forms

kicksled kicksleds kicksledding kicksledded

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

spark
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