skidors

Updated: May 3, 2025

For him they wrote an account of everything peculiar that they observed such as the odd customs of the Laplanders their mode of travelling in sledges with reindeer their snow-skating on the skidors and skabargers and, in short, a full account of the habits and manners of these singular people.

Mayne Reid - Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt

This deep snow was the accumulated deposits of different storms that had occurred during the winter; and, shadowed from the sun by the long branches of evergreen pines from both sides stretching outward over the ravine, it had remained without melting. There was a crust over it strong enough to carry a man on skidors, but not without them, unless he proceeded with care and caution.

Mayne Reid - Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt