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Originally posted by recoatlift:
This is a toboggan

Yep!

When I moved to WV (1975) Mom and Dad bought my brother and I a sled (Flexible Flyer) and what we called a toboggan. It was basically like riding in a round, metal shield with two hand grips at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions.

It was also what we called our knit caps. LOL

Its a flat bottom wooden sled. UP here, the hat is called a Chook.
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Mine is blaze orange. Excellent.
I wear it when my Stormy Kromer just wont do.

quote:

Originally posted by recoatlift:
This is a toboggan

WNY Agrees!!

From the limited web searching I’ve done the more popular meaning of toboggan (in the US) seems to be the sled definition. Toboggan, as a cap, appears to be more of a southern thing.

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
This is a toboggan

Agreed that is a toboggan, and stocking cap/hat is worn on your head...

Growing up in Northern Ohio I understood a toboggan to be a type of sled.

When I lived in West Tennessee a news report described robbery suspects as having toboggans on their heads. I was conjuring up a mental image of the perps wearing sleds until I realized that they were referring to headgear.

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
This is a toboggan

Yep. Not sure what southerners think a toboggan is??? Maybe they should watch less NASCAR Actually I love the south but...

I grew up in the northeast and have spent a lifetime participating in outdoor winter sporting activities, and have never until reading this thread heard 'toboggan' referred to as something that is worn.

Interesting. Verrrry Interesting.

Detroit

Type of sled

quote:

Originally posted by recoatlift:
This is a toboggan

^^^ Correct.
A sled had runners on it and a saucer was a disc shape thing you sat in.

Anything on your head was and still is...a HAT

Toboggan:

Southeast Michigan.

Grew up in Indiana, toboggan generally meant a type of sled however I have also heard of it as a type of hat. I also lived in CA, FL, & CT.

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Originally posted by Cookster:
I grew up in the northeast and have spent a lifetime participating in outdoor winter sporting activities, and have never until reading this thread heard 'toboggan' referred to as something that is worn.

Interesting. Verrrry Interesting.

Nor, have I. Grew up outside Chicago, where we had several "Toboggan Slides" in the Forest Preserves. Great fun. Of course, those got killed by the plaintive awards.

Bemis Woods Toboggan Slide

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Originally posted by archerman:

Agreed that is a toboggan, and stocking cap/hat is worn on your head...

That's the way we do it in Kansas.

From KY also- a toboggan keeps your noggin warm. The thing you ride down a hill in the snow is a sled.

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Originally posted by preten2b:
Sled has 2 runners. Toboggans have wooden slats.

This right here.

According to a brief internet search, the people who call a hat a toboggan, call it that because it was typically a hat you wore while you were tobogganing. As in, using a toboggan, the sled.

As such, a Toboggan is a type of sled, and a slang term for a winter hat.

I grew up in Ann Arbor. A toboggan is a wooden sled that holds multiple riders. It also required a waxing every year.

Toboggans are for sliding down snowy slopes. If your toboggan is wrapped around your head, you just hit a tree. I can only hope your stocking cap helped protect your melon.

On a side note, thanks P-220 for the memories, some of the best waxings I've ever gotten were in Ann Arbor!

I can honestly say I've NEVER heard the term toboggan applied to headwear. It has and shall always be a fun wooden sled without runners for barreling down slopes. And FWIW I grew up in upstate NY.