sledding

1. 1.

   the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh

   Broadersport

   Narrowertobogganingbobsledding
2. 2.

   advancing toward a goal

   “persuading him was easy going”

   “the proposal faces tough sledding”

   Synonymsgoing

   Broaderaccomplishment

Other forms of sledding

plural

sleddings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sledding

What does sledding mean?

sledding means "the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sledding?

sledding has 2 syllables: sled-ding. The stress falls on "sled". In IPA it is /ˈslɛdɪŋ/.

What is another word for sledding?

Close synonyms include going. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sledding a common word?

sledding is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.