sleddog

plural sleddogs

1. alternativeAlternative form of sled dog.

   The trend was reversed, finally, after the sleddog fervor spread to the lower forty-eight states.

   2002, David J. Marcou, Barbara A. Pauls, America's heartland remembers

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   There is something wonderful and sad about Ohio around Christmastime — maybe the reasons are the licentious, Yukon sleddog cold and the buildings on the main streets of college towns standing respectfully buttressed with graceful wings...

   1968, Melvin Van Peebles, A bear for the FBI, page 131

   Buck, the canine hero is kidnapped from his home in the Santa Clara Walley of California and taken to Alaska to become a sleddog.

   1976, Carolyn Johnston Willson, Jack London's Socialism, page 62

   We've just finished our winter sports season (which I prefer to summer) with skiing competitions of all kinds, skating, and even a sleddog race this year.

   1990, Dolores Avelleyra Murphy, In red hats, beads & bags: 1908 graduates sharing their lives through letters, page 218

   The Iditarod is a main trans-Alaska Range thoroughfare for regional residents during the winter months and is venue for the 1,000-mile Iditarod Sleddog Race, the 2,000-mile Tesoro Irondog snowmachine race, and the 350-mile muscle-powered Alaska Uitrasport Iditarod Trail Invitational marathon.

   2005, United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2006

   Between Loch Morlich and Inverdruie lies the Cairngorm Sleddog Adventure Centre, the UK's only sleddog centre.

   2014, Rob Humphreys, Steve Vickers, James Stewart, The Rough Guide to Scotland, →ISBN