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!

Sledging.

A girl at university told me she'd been toboganning and that still makes me laugh. She was talking about sledging on a sledge not anything else.

I would say Sledding, I'm in Ireland

@earlydoors42

Sledging.

A girl at university told me she'd been toboganning and that still makes me laugh. She was talking about sledging on a sledge not anything else.

Why does it make you laugh, it's just another name for a sled/sledge?

Sledging - UK
Sledding - USA

@NavyFlask - It's spelled sledding and pronounced sledging

No, it's not. www.lexico.com/definition/sledge
www.lexico.com/definition/sled

You sledge on a sledge and ride on a sleigh.

Definitely sledging (in the UK), I'd say - whether referring to travelling downhill on snow or insulting your sporting opponents

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

Reminds me of the old joke:
Two skiers are at the top of a very steep slope and are arguing about whether the 'proper' method is to zig-zag-zig-zag or to zag-zig-zag-zig to the bottom, so they ask a man who comes along to cast the deciding vote.
He says "No point in asking me - I'm a tobogganist."
One of the skiers replies "Wow, that's a stroke of luck, as I've just run out - I'll have 20 Benson & Hedges, please and a disposable lighter!"

Sledging! Sledding really pisses me off - no idea why😠

...Knew I was right!

Well in the UK anyway...

Sledding is mainly North American English. I think it's a better word.

Sledging sounds like 'dredging' and 'sledge' sounds like the name of a tool you'd use for the sledging/ dredging.

On the rare occasions when it snowed in Ireland when I was growing up, we went 'tobogganing'. Actually we slid down a hill in a rubber dinghy owned by my cousins.

But having said that, the alternative word to tobogganing was sledding, iirc.

My dad had tales of sledding down a certain frozen street in Kilkenny during WW2 after a pint at the top of the hill each time, and a long and slippery climb back up.

Sledge

Sledging, don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say sledding, or maybe I just haven’t noticed!

Is your son going out pulled by a pack of Huskies? No?

Then he's out sledging

And if he's standing at second slip, loudly speculating about what the batsman's wife is up to whilst said batsman's away on tour he's sledging.

That said, I've always called in Tobogganing

Sledging is standard UK

@Almostslimjim

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)

Similar here. Sledging if it's flat to the ground, sledding if it's on rails or tracks so you're in any way raised above the ground.

'Thinking I might actually die' is sliding down the hill at UEA on a biscuit tin lid (posh) or a carrier bag (normal).

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

A sledge has rails, a toboggan has a flat bottom. What you but from garages/supermarkets are toboggans.