sledging

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of sledge

noun

1. The act of using a sledge to travel over snow.
   In 1831 the naval officer James Clark Ross led the British effort north by sledging out from his ice-bound ship, HMS Victory; after several weeks travelling with Inuit companions he succeeded in finding his compass needle sitting upright. 2012, Chris Turney, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, page 19
2. The act of using a sledgehammer to bend or crush an object.
   It is necessary, therefore, to force the ends to the proper curvature, either by sledging, or by some other equivalent means; 1905, "The "Lap-Joint Crack" in Steam Boilers", The Locomotive, new series 25: 162
3. (cricket) The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting him