The little bird flew along the highways finding here and there in the tracks of the sledges a grain of corn.

Sledge hockey is a variation of ice hockey intended for disabled athletes, who sit on aluminium sledges with attached skate blades. The players each use two spiked fibreglass hockey sticks both to propel themselves forward and to pass the puck or shoot it towards the goal.

Don't crack a nut with a sledgehammer.

Sledgehammers are used in construction demolition, in mining, in driving fence posts into the ground and in driving the spikes that secure the rails to the wooden railway ties.

Something really should be done about the problem, but this is cracking a nut with a sledgehammer.

Back in the days when it snowed in winter, children would ride sledges, have snowball fights or build snowmen.

Alaska holds an annual contest in which teams of 16 dogs pull sledges a distance of about 1,800 kilometres through tundra and forests, crossing rivers, hills and mountain passes. The sledge driver is often called a "musher"; the word comes from the French command "Marche!" In most years the winning musher is from Alaska, but a Swiss citizen has won the event four times, and a Norwegian has won twice.

I bought the new sledge for my son.

Plenty of snow had fallen overnight. In the streets the next morning, grandmothers appeared with their grandchildren on sledges, and in the park that afternoon, after school, snowball fights broke out.

In the great square, the boldest among the boys would often tie their sledges to the country people's carts, and go with them a good way.