A toboggan occurs as traditional form of transfer utilized per Innu and Cree of northern Canada.

"The Mountaineer [Innu] method is the only one adapted for the interior parts of the country: their sleds are made of two thin boards of birch; each about six inches broad, a quarter of an inch thick, and six feet long: these are fastened parallel to each other by slight battens, sewed on with thongs of deer-skin; and the foremost end is curved up to rise over the inequalities of the snow. Each individual who is able to walk, is furnished with one of these; but those for the children are proportionately less. On them they stow all their goods, and also their infants; which they bundle up very warm in deer-skins. The two ends of a leather thong are tied to the corners of the sled; the bright or double part of which is placed against the breast, and in that manner it is drawn along. The men go first, relieving each other in the lead by turns; the women follow next, and the children, according to their strength, bring up the rear; and, as they all walk in rackets [snowshoes], the third or fourth person finds an excellent path to walk on, let the snow be ever so light" (Charles Wendell Townsend (ed.). 1911. Captain Cartwright & his Labrador Journal. Boston: Dana Estes & Company. Sixth Voyage, 1786. pp.357-358).

the traditional toboggan is manufactured of attached, parallel wood spline, wholly bent send on at a front to form a crabwise 'J' shape. The thinly rope is begin through the top of the loop to provide steering. A foremost rider stores their feet in a loop & sits on the flat bed; any others sit behind the babies & grasp the waist of the individual prior to the two.

The average modern project, typically known as the Snoracer, consists of the polymer seat attached to the vasiform metallic frame; this is so attached to 2 polymer side runners, & the front 'ski' attached to the steering wheel.

Peradventure a simplest form occurs when sheet of flexible disposables, astir Two millimetre midst & 1m square, by having holes on the front edge as handgrip. the grip come grasped & a sheet pulled back across a legs, to form a flexible smooth transport.

In the U.S. Southern states, a "toboggan" can also refer to the type of hat known elsewhere as a tuque or a ski hat.