I'm from the NE and have friends and relatives all over New England. One does not wear a sled on ones head. What you southerners do is a whole nuther issue.......

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Sled!

I grew up in Louisville, KY, and both the Sled and the cap was called a Toboggan. We just seldom got enough snow to use the sled one. Other than on "Hill 1" at Seneca park.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
A toboggan was a wooden, flat-bottomed sledding device, usually held 4 or more people.

This is a toboggan. Just saying sled by itself is the one that has metal runners.

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Originally posted by Rolan_Kraps:
I grew up in Louisville, KY, and both the Sled and the cap was called a Toboggan. We just seldom got enough snow to use the sled one. Other than on "Hill 1" at Seneca park.

That's where I grew up too and also sledded in Seneca as well as Cherokee Parks. I think it was Seneca where my older brother melted the toes off his rubber galoshes when he stood too close to the bonfire for too long. He as 8 years older than me and was there to hang out with the girls around the bonfire. I was only 9 or 10 and all I cared about was sledding down the hill, and keeping my head warm, of course, with my toboggan!

SLED. and it is steered by bending the curled up part.

Born and raised in Cols Ohio and my family always referred to it as something worn on your head.

We had relatives in Southern Ohio, WV and KY also. So it is hard to tell where my family picked it up

I always catch myself when referring to it because most people have no idea what I am referring to so i say watch cap.

MN here - Toboggans are a wooden 'sled' with with an up curved front. Knit hats are:

- 'winter hat'
- Beanie
- Toque
- Tossel Cap (that one was from my German Great Grandma) - due to the poof on the top of most of them.

Never heard them called toboggans.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Growing up in Alabama a toboggan was for your noggin, a sled was for riding downhill on the rare snow days we got.

Same answer. Preferably on Green Valley Country Club fairways!

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Growing up in Alabama a toboggan was for your noggin, a sled was for riding downhill on the rare snow days we got.

Same answer. Preferably on Green Valley Country Club fairways!

I bet those were perfect for sledding! We couldn't get there from where we lived when it snowed, but the street we lived on was perfect and all the cross streets between Shades Crest and Alford were straight downhill - we used to hit them all when it snowed!

Remember that day when they let school out - junior or senior year - but they waited too long and the streets were all covered? We couldn't get up Columbiana Rd so I ended up walking home - it was about 2.5 miles and snowed the entire way - wearing a light jacket and tennis shoes. I was covered in snow.

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Originally posted by TMats:
The first time I ever heard “toboggan” described as a hat is about a minute ago when I opened this thread. Of course, a “toboggan” isn’t just a sled, it’s a very specific type of sled of all wood construction with a steam bent bow in the front.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This exactly. I grew up in Northern Utah.

Grew up in Minnesota.

Toboggan - long flat-bottomed wooden type snow vehicle
Sled - shorter with rails
Inner tube - Rubber tube over filled with air
Saucer - Round, concave plastic circle with handles
Appliance Box - Cardboard, slow, good for one trip, held everyone you betchya
Ski Doo - all-in-one-name for any brand of snowmobile used to pull any or all of the above, and to tow the ice fishing house.

Cap - had a bill
Cover - departmental issue
Stocking cap - Wool knitted
Chook - wool with face mask
Helmet - everyday wear for hockey
Fruit Basket - my grandma's Easter bonnet oofdah
Hat - everything else

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
This is a toboggan

Agreed

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Originally posted by Texas@Last:
Ski Doo - all-in-one-name for any brand of snowmobile used to pull any or all of the above, and to tow the ice fishing house.

I grew up referring to them as Snow Cats. Even nowadays, half the folks know exactly what I'm referring to and the other half get a puzzled look on their face. Most of the latter are implants.

Sled... Toboggan.... Saucer. The finest snow vehicle it was my privilege to defy death on was a re-purposed Corvair hood. Or trunk. Well, it was off the front of a Corvair. Held four dudes and was fast and completely uncontrollable.
We wore a close fitting knit cap while Corvairing.

i did not grow up with the word toboggan being used, so it's one of those weird, fairly normal words that just sounds awfully wrong to me. I remember reading it in a Calvin and Hobbes comic when I was a kid, but didn't know what it referred to.

sleds were always just sleds, and winter hats were always called beanies.

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Originally posted by smschulz:

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a type of sled for riding down snow covered hills

Iowa

Same. Never heard of it as something to wear (except on a rope around shoulders as you drag the sled part uphill).

Wooden Sled, Connecticut

Growing up in the Midwest, a toboggan was a type of sled and the hat was a stocking cap. Been in Alabama for almost 17 years and it still doesn't sound right to hear the hat called a toboggan. Of course, locals also call a shopping cart a "buggy" and a garden hose a "hose pipe", so...

Grew up outside of Louisville, KY. It's a hat.

Best sledding I've ever done was in Long Run park on a plastic sheeting. I guess the conditions were just right for it. Something about speeding down the hill with 6 of your friends and no steering was an absolute blast.