Luge vs. Skeleton

Lugenoun

A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.

Lugenoun

The sport of racing on luges.

Lugenoun

A piece of ice, bone or other material with a channel down which a (usually alcoholic) drink can be poured into someone's mouth.

Lugeverb

(intransitive) To travel by luge; to ride a luge.

Lugenoun

a racing sled for one or two people; it is raced down a chute of packed snow or ice, and the occupant(s) lie down on it with feet in the direction of motion.

Lugenoun

a racing sled for one or two people

Lugeverb

move along on a luge or toboggan

Luge

A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat.

Skeletonnoun

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Skeletonnoun

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) A very thin person.

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

Skeletonnoun

(architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

Skeletonnoun

(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

Skeletonnoun

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

Skeletonnoun

A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to minimize

Skeletonnoun

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

Skeletonnoun

A very thin or lean person.

Skeletonnoun

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Skeletonadjective

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Skeletonnoun

something reduced to its minimal form;

Skeletonnoun

a scandal that is kept secret;

Skeletonnoun

the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

Skeletonnoun

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;

Skeleton

A skeleton is a structural frame that supports an animal body. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hydroskeleton, a flexible skeleton supported by fluid pressure, and the cytoskeleton present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including bacteria, and archaea.