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An example use of sled in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… send it i do sled snowboard skis …”
A sled is a piece of equipment consisting of a long, thin board with a smooth, round, or square piece of wood or plastic at one end, used for sliding on snow or ice.
the word sled occurs in english on average 1.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sled can be often used in the following areas:
1) transport and travel;