1.NounA small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
"The child zoomed down the hill on his sled."
2.NounA vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
""Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled."
3.NounA snowmobile.
"We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section."
4.NounA car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.
"He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8.; That sled had manual drum brakes on all four corners."