Sleigh vs Sled - What's the difference?
sleigh | sled |
(obsolete) Sly
A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods.
A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice.
(US) A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice.
To ride a sled.
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As nouns the difference between sleigh and sled
is that sleigh is a vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. contrast "sled", which is smaller while sled is a small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice. A "sled" in this sense is not pulled by an animal as a "sleigh" is.As verbs the difference between sleigh and sled
is that sleigh is to ride or drive a sleigh while sled is to ride a sled.As an adjective sleigh
is sly.sleigh
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Adjective
(er)Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia sleigh)- Santa travels in a sleigh .
Derived terms
* Nantucket sleigh rideSee also
* sled * sledge * tobogganDerived terms
* sleigherAnagrams
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* English words not following the I before E except after C rulesled
English
Noun
(en noun)- The child zoomed down the hill on his sled .
- "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled .