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cresta run
/ ˈkrɛstə /
noun
- an activity involving travelling at high speed in a toboggan down a steep narrow passage of compacted snow and ice
- the passage itself
Example Sentences
And after a ban lasting 103 years, imposed because of fears it would cause breast cancer, women have been allowed to compete again, with the Cresta Run's Ladies' Grand National race taking place last month.
Her passion for the Cresta Run comes from her father, the late Lieutenant-Colonel Digby Willoughby.
At the sound of a bell, she sprinted and then threw herself on her almost 100-pound toboggan and hurtled headfirst down the legendary Cresta Run.
The Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile track and the birthplace of the sport practiced on it, skeleton, the Olympic sport akin to sledding, had kept women off its ice for decades.
The Cresta Run dates to 1885, when it was built for the amusement of British tourists who spent the winter in Switzerland’s mountains.
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