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pulkbacken

English translation: sledding hill

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Swedish term or phrase:pulkbacken
English translation:sledding hill
Entered by: Claudia Anda-Maria Halas

19:06 Dec 21, 2009
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Swedish term or phrase: pulkbacken
'dragit sonen uppför ***pulkbacken*** typ 1000 gånger'
is there an English equivalent ? or should I try to translate it?
thanks,
Claudia Anda-Maria Halas
Romania
Local time: 19:28
sledding hill
Explanation:
"Pulled my son up the sledding hill about 1000 times"
Talking about snow sledding.
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Paul Lambert
Sweden
Local time: 18:28
Grading comment
thanks for your help
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3sledding hill
Paul Lambert
4 +1toboggan run
Anna Herbst
4the sledge slope
George Hopkins


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
sledding hill


Explanation:
"Pulled my son up the sledding hill about 1000 times"
Talking about snow sledding.


Paul Lambert
Sweden
Local time: 18:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thanks for your help

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aradai Pardo Martínez
20 mins
  -> Thank you
agree  Charles Ek: Can't stay around long -- I have to rush out and try one of the sledding hills listed at http://www.sledriding.com/. :-)
24 mins
  -> Thank you
agree  Michele Fauble
1 hr
  -> Thank you. (although on your side of the Atlantic I think they call it "tobbagganing", don't they ;)
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
toboggan run


Explanation:
Not much snow to show at this time of year on Mt Buller, but this is what it would be called in Australia.


    Reference: http://www.vicsnowreport.com.au/cams/mtbuller/toboggan.asp
Anna Herbst
Australia
Local time: 02:28
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 37

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  asptech: In my childhood, very long ago, that would have been "kälkbacken" (kälke = toboggan or bobsleigh), but these days parents give their children plastic pans (pulkor) to have fun with on snowy slopes.
13 hrs
  -> I used to fly down the hill on an old metal tray my grandmother donated, then I graduated to the coveted round laquered metal "flygande tefat" with a leather carry strap - almost as good as getting a ride on a toboggan with a steering wheel!
neutral  Cynthia Coan: Aussies may use "toboggan" broadly, but my (U.S. ed.) Webster's dictionary defines a "toboggan" as a _specific type_ of sled -- i.e., "a long, flat-bottomed light sled made usu. of thin boards curved up at one end with usu. low handrails at the sides."
2 days 15 hrs
  -> We do call things by different names in different countries which complicates as well as delights. What Webster describes, however, is clearly a "pulka"!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the sledge slope


Explanation:
I would prefer 'sledging skope'.

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2009-12-22 20:49:37 GMT) Post-grading
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Slope of course, not skope.

George Hopkins
Local time: 18:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52
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