Luge vs. Skeleton — What's the Difference?

A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat.

A skeleton is a structural frame that supports an animal body. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hydroskeleton, a flexible skeleton supported by fluid pressure, and the cytoskeleton present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including bacteria, and archaea.

A sport in which a small open sled is ridden by one or two people lying face-up with the feet pointed downhill, usually over an ice-covered course in a timed competition.

The internal structure that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism, and is composed of bone and cartilage or, in certain animals, cartilage alone.

The sled used in this sport.

The hard external structure that supports, protects, or contains the body of many invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and corals, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles.

The sport of street luge.

A supporting structure or framework, as of a building.

The board used in street luge.

An outline or sketch.

(countable) A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.

Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts.

(by extension)

One that is very thin or emaciated.

(uncountable) The sport of racing on luges.

A sport in which a person glides down an icy track head-first lying on one's stomach on a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes.

(countable) A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth.

The sled used in such a sport.

To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.

Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton.

(figuratively) To slide or slip down a slope.

Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members

A racing sled for one or two people; it is raced down a chute of packed snow or ice, and the occupant(s) lie down on it with feet in the direction of motion.

Of or relating to the sport of skeleton.

A racing sled for one or two people

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Move along on a luge or toboggan

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

(figuratively) A very thin person.

(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

(architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

(printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.

Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.

(botany) The network of veins in a leaf.

A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

(archaic) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.

(archaic) To minimize.

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

A very thin or lean person.

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Something reduced to its minimal form;

A scandal that is kept secret;

The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;