sledging

plural sledgings

1. countableuncountableThe act of using a sledge to travel over snow.

   In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright.

   2012, Chris Turney, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, page 19

2. countableuncountableThe act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.

   It is necessary, therefore, to force the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging, or by some other equivalent means;

   1905, "The "Lap-Joint Crack" in Steam Boilers", The Locomotive, new series 25: 162

3. countableuncountableball gamesThe practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting the batter.

   Mind you, Wally wasn't bad at the sledging caper himself.

   1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 181

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sledge