toboggan

noun, esp. N Amer., a long narrow sled without runners, bent or curved upwards at the front, which may be drawn by a rope over compacted snow or ice or used to coast down hills (COD); see also tobogganing

“Our family does drink a bit once in awhile, and I recall we got toboggans ’cause the snow was so high. We climbed on the roof of the barn, and we kept sliding down, whumping down. Remember that?”

“Dad used to put the toboggan on the back of the car and come over too once in a while. Not often. But I can remember him pulling us behind the toboggan. Because the ice used to be so strong then. Back then, it’s not now, but used to. We had more severe winters.”

“Since we’ve been here, we’ve walked the ice lots of times through the winter. We go south now, but we used to walk the ice when we lived here. And then we had a four-wheeler, and we had a toboggan on the back that we brought our groceries in and left all our cars over there. So it was good. But life’s good on Simcoe, we find.”