crazy carpet

English

An unusual configuration of multiple people riding multiple, overlapping crazy carpets.

Noun

crazy carpet (plural crazy carpets)

  1. A thin, flexible sheet of plastic ridden down snowy hills for recreation (akin to a toboggan).
    • 1992, Joanne M. Landy, Ready-to-use P.E. Activities: For grades 5-6:
      This activity is best done outside in snow conditions. Each player, in turn, sits or lies flat on a crazy carpet while two teammates pull the carpet by an attached rope []
    • 2019, Ezekiel Boone, The Mansion: A Novel:
      They'd brought out more sleds, and there was a nice mix of old-fashioned wooden toboggans and plastic discs, plus steerable sleds and crazy carpets. Beth and Rothko piled onto a crazy carpet and barely made it twenty feet before wiping out.
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