[f. prec. sb.] intr. To ride on a toboggan or sleigh; esp. to ‘coast’ or slide down a snowy (or other) slope on a toboggan. Hence Tobogganing vbl. sb.
1856. Miss Bird, Englishwom. in Amer., 264. With balls, and moose-hunting, and sleigh-driving, and ‘tarboggining.’
1863. H. Y. Hind, Labrador, I. xvii. 280. I didn’t want to break the canoe, so I sat down and slid as if I was tabognaying.
1874. Symonds, Sk. Italy & Greece (1898), I. i. 27. On a run selected for convenience … tobogganing is a very Bohemian amusement.
1887. Marchioness Dufferin, Our Viceregal Life India, 15 Sept. (1889), II. 191. The children got three tin baths … and began to toboggan down the grassy slopes in them.
