Sledding or Sledging

[KellyLorraine]

I say sledging but my DH says sledding. Who is right here?

YABU - it's obviously sledding, stupid!

Or

YANBU - your husband doesn't know what he's taking about!

Sledging

Sledging here. I think sledding is generally more common in America. It may be the case in parts of the UK too, but I haven't come across it.

Sledding in North America. Sledging in the UK.

Both of you. Although, from Googling, sledding is more north American. Both are of Dutch origin.

Google says sledging is British, sledding American.

Yabu, it's sledging.

Sledging, or as it was back in my day, "risking serious injury going downhill on a bumbag".

Sledging

Sledging if it is a person on a plastic or wooden sledge down a hill.

Sledding if it's a wooden sledge pulled by dogs (or deer)

Sledging.

Now question is do you sit on a sled or a sleigh?

Or a sledge?

Sledging on a sledge in Glasgow!

Sledging

Sledging with a sledge unless its pulled by dogs then it's a sled and sled dogs.

Sledging on a sledge, but I've noticed a few folk calling it a toboggan recently

@NuniaBeeswax

Sledging, or as it was back in my day, "risking serious injury going downhill on a bumbag".

Sledging here, on a sledge.

But like pp, black plastic bin liners were the height of luxury where I grew up.

I think we all used to call them toboggans when I was a child (a great many years ago).

You're both right. It's a regional thing like most of the word pronunciations on here.

"Sledging, or as it was back in my day, "risking serious injury going downhill on a bumbag"."

Bumbag? Binbag!

It's spelled sledding and pronounced sledging.

Sledging on a sledge, although the more I look at the word on this thread the weirder it seems.

I'm from Canada and would say you go sledding on sled (or tobagganing on a tobaggan). Horses pull a sleigh.

Sledge is a type of hammer.

Sledging. This is the UK, let us take back control of our language!

@RogersVideo
Sledge hammer comes from "slægan", Anglo-Saxon for "to strike violently".