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PRONUNCIATION OF STREET LUGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STREET LUGE

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Street luge is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STREET LUGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

street luge

Street luge

Street luge is an extreme gravity-powered activity that involves riding a street luge board down a paved road or course. Street luge is also known as land luge or road luge. Like skateboarding, street luge is often done for sport and for recreation. Other than the supine riding position and very high speeds, street luge has little relation to its winter namesake.

Definition of street luge in the English dictionary

The definition of street luge in the dictionary is the sport of descending a steep road or track on a large type of skateboard on which riders lie on their backs, descending feet first.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STREET LUGE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE STREET LUGE

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Synonyms and antonyms of street luge in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «street luge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STREET LUGE

Find out the translation of street luge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of street luge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «street luge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

街头雪橇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

street luge
570 millions of speakers

English

street luge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सड़क लुग
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الزحافات الثلجية في الشوارع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

улица санному спорту
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rua luge
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাস্তায় লিউজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

luge de rue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jalan luge
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Street Luge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ストリートリュージュ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거리 루지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Werna luge
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Luge đường phố
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெரு பெரியது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्ट्रीट लुग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sokak Kızağı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

strada slittino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ulica saneczkarstwie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Вулиця санного спорту
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sanie de stradă
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

street luge
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

straat luge
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gata rodel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

street luge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of street luge

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STREET LUGE»

The term «street luge» is regularly used and occupies the 108.049 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STREET LUGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about street luge

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREET LUGE»

Discover the use of street luge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to street luge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Street Luge and Dirtboarding
An overview of the skateboard-based sports explains that street luge is a downhill race where the skateboarder lies down on the board to increase speed and that dirt boarding is the equivelent of snowboarding without the snow.
Suzanne J. Murdico, 2003
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Street Luge Racing
Introduces the history and development of the sport that combines skateboarding and ice luging.
Pat Ryan, Patrick Ryan, 1997
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Street Luge
Introduces the history and development of the sport that combines skateboarding and ice luging, discusses the equipment, clothing, and safety factors.
John Nichols, 2002
4
Street Luge in the X Games
Looks at the people and events connected with the X-Games street luge competitions.
Christopher Blomquist, 2003
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American More! Level 4 Teacher's Book
Key A 2 Catfish grabbing B 1 Street luge C 3 Logrolling Now ask students to read the texts carefully. Ask a few general questions to check comprehension: What are some other names for catfish grabbing? (catfish grappling, stumping ...
Cheryl Pelteret, Günter Gerngross, Christian Holzmann, 2010
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Extreme sports: Brilliant ideas for taking yourself to the limit
6. Street. luge. Imagine hurtling down a hill feet first, just centimetres from the road surface. Did I mention that you have no brakes? If you're not hiding behind your hands at the thought then maybe street luge is for you. Street luge may have  ...
Infinite Ideas, Steve Shipside, 2012
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Games for Your Brain : Extreme
Street luge evolved from skateboarding. A street luge is an 8-foot-long board that is raced on a street. The "pilot" lies on the luge and steers it with her weight as she cruises down the street feet first. Some luge courses have jumps that can ...
Tina L. Seelig, 2007
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition
... 200 feet (or triple that, if the road is wet) or until you hit an obstruction. Stay onyour board. Absorb the impact of the crash. If. 34. chapter 2: adventure sports How to Bail Out of a Street Luge.
David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven, 2010
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Extreme Street Luge
"Explores the sport of extreme street luge"--Provided by publisher.
Tamra Orr, 2011
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Lessons from the Edge: Extreme Athletes Show You How to Take ...
Twenty-four of the world's top street lugers had accepted organizer Tom Mason's ("the bad boy of street luge," according to announcer and luge pro Biker Sherlock ) invitation to run the hill despite the wet weather. Even under blue skies, the ...
Maryann Karinch, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STREET LUGE»

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Engineering Students and Street Luge Champion to Break 100mph …
A sports enthusiast clad in leather and protective gear, lying on his or her back on a sled akin to a skateboard, rocketing down hillside streets: This is street ... «ENGINEERING.com, Jul 15»
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Street luge, skating event returns to Bainbridge today
BAINBRIDGE – The Soldiers of Downhill street luge event returns to Bainbridge's Jester Hill today and Saturday. The popular event that in past years has been ... «Chillicothe Gazette, Oct 14»
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SCE London Studio wants to bring social experiences to Project …
"I think even now you see people playing Street Luge, standing around and laughing at what they were doing, and when they come out and talk about, 'Oh you ... «Digital Spy UK, Oct 14»
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System Update: The latest on virtual reality
Another, "Street Luge" had me luging down a snowy hill, a simple enough minigame made slightly more interesting by the fact that I could look around. «New York Daily News, Aug 14»
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Street luge proves quick off the mark
As part of the Australian National Championships and final leg of the national circuit, the free inaugural event features street luge, downhill skateboarding, ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Aug 14»
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Project Morpheus: Hands-on with Street Luge, EVE Valkyrie at E3 …
Controlling Street Luge was done entirely through head tracking, tilting your head left or right to turn while the motions were picked up by the PlayStation ... «Digital Spy UK, Jun 14»
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Street Luge In Your Living Room With Sony's New Virtual Reality Tech
More news about Sony's new Project Morpheus virtual reality endeavor came out of the gaming's annual E3 mega conference this week — including demos ... «Daily Caller, Jun 14»
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Street Luge
In addition to The Deep, Street Luge can now be added to their repertoire of VR experiences, and this one is most certainly based on a more traditional ... «VRFocus, Jun 14»
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Morpheus VR demo lets you street luge at 100 MPH from the safety …
Street luge is one of those sports--it's a sport, right?--that I knew from a very young age that I'd never try. I mean, I couldn't even count on myself to stay put in the ... «GamesRadar, Jun 14»
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Stuntman Daz Fellows confident jet-powered street luge can propel …
Street luge takes the sled off the man-made sporting track and on to the road. "It's almost a meditation in a way," said Fellows, who embraced street luge in 1996. «Sydney Morning Herald, May 14»

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