What is this recreational vehicle called in your area (if you have them)?

[GreenPartyVoter]

Here it's a snowmobile but hubby's cousins in Quebec call them a Ski-doo.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Snowmachine...

If somebody calls one of those a snowmobile up here, we KNOW they're from somewhere else. :)

[soleiri]

3. I thought it was funny

When Sarah Palin corrected someone who called it a snowmobile,
as if the word snowmobile was completely made up and not just another name for a "snow MAH-sheen."

We call it snowmobile.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I don't know for sure, but

I think people from every state except Alaska call it a snowmobile, but that word just sounds so foreign and somehow "prissy" to me. I've been living here since 1975, and I've never heard this vehicle called anything BUT a snowmachine by Alaskans.

Sarah didn't need to make a big deal about it, though. She tries so hard to portray herself as this great "Alaskan," but she's proved over and over within the past year that she's not really one of us.

Speaking of Ms. Thang, she's finally come back here for a book signing, but she's only appearing at Elmendorf AFB and Eielson up in Fairbanks, and the general public isn't invited. I guess she's afraid to face her former constituents whom she was supposedly defending like a mama grizzly defends her cubs. What a crock...

[JVS]

2. The mangler

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Well if you take it out with only a half inch of snow on the ground, then yeah! LOL

[azmouse]

6. Nonexistent

But it would be fun to see someone driving one through the cactus and tumbleweeds! :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. LOL

[Mopar151]

10. Did'nt one of the Unser's get in Dutch

for doing something crazy on a snowmobile a few years ago? (The Unsers are a famous racing family, from Albekerque NM IIRC)

[Mopar151]

7. I hear "sled" a lot these days in New England

It may only refer to the stooopid fast ones some of my wacko buddies play with, as in "I've got my new sled piped and studded, but I still gotta get the clutch right - it only went 90 mph on the lake last week."

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Hmmm I haven't noticed it, but then I am not exactly hanging out with the

folks who ride these things.

[Brickbat]

11. Snowmobile, and you sometimes hear people talking about going "'biling" (pronounced

BEE-ling) around here.

[hobbit709]

12. Noisy goddam idiot machine.

[tosh]

15. Exactly.

Same as this:

[sarge43]

17. Accident looking for a place to happen. n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

13. Snowmobile here in Wisconsin.

In winter, It's a common sight to see a snowmobile pull up next to you at a gas station.

Hell, back in high school, a number of my friends rode their snowmobiles to school in winter.

[Blue Diadem]

14. Snowmobile here too.

Every time I hear snow machine I think of a machine that makes artificial snow.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Exactly. Ski lodges buy snow machines.

[bigwillq]

16. Snowmobile (nt)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Yup: snowmobile!

Of course, we don't have them down here, at sea level, lol!

:hi:

[liberaltrucker]

19. A useless vehicle back home in Bama

;)

[Odin2005]

20. Snowmobile, DUH!

Minnesota: home of Polaris! :)

[Blue_In_AK]

22. You're all heathens!!

[SanddancerUSA]

23. Don't know, i can never hear what people say when one goes by.

WHAT?

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. LOL

[RebelOne]

25. Since I live in Georgia, there are not any of those vehicles in my area, but

I have ridden one in Colorado, and it was called a snowmobile.

[Deep13]

26. obnoxious. nt

[hayu_lol]

27. Ski-Doo was an early brand name...

one of the first mass-produced.

[Roon]

28. In Alaska them call them snow-go